Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of GodHarper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 304 páginas Enter a Monastery Without Walls Christian Meditation introduces an ancient practice to a contemporary audience. James Finley, a former monk and student of Thomas Merton, presents the fundamentals of both understanding and practicing Christian meditation. He provides simple, helpful instructions, as well as explaining the deeper connection with the divine that meditation can bring. Above all, he makes clear that the aim of meditation is to allow us to experience divine contemplation -- the presence of God. |
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... sense, one with all who are reading these reflections. As the circle of our meditative awareness expands still further, we can discern the presence of countless men and women, living and dead, who have experienced in their hearts the ...
... sense, one with all who are reading these reflections. As the circle of our meditative awareness expands still further, we can discern the presence of countless men and women, living and dead, who have experienced in their hearts the ...
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... sense of enduring protection—in the midst of it all. It was at about this same time, when I was in the ninth grade, that an instructor in a religion class at the Catholic high school I was attending told the class about monasteries. I ...
... sense of enduring protection—in the midst of it all. It was at about this same time, when I was in the ninth grade, that an instructor in a religion class at the Catholic high school I was attending told the class about monasteries. I ...
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... sense of oneness with God that utterly transformed my most intimate experience of myself and everyone and everything around me. It was, in fact, the perpetual silence that affected me the most. It is not that I never spoke. I chanted ...
... sense of oneness with God that utterly transformed my most intimate experience of myself and everyone and everything around me. It was, in fact, the perpetual silence that affected me the most. It is not that I never spoke. I chanted ...
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... sense, contemplation is an act of freedom, in which we say yes to God's eternal yes to us in having created us in his image and likeness, as persons called to share in God's life to the point of realizing a graced identification with ...
... sense, contemplation is an act of freedom, in which we say yes to God's eternal yes to us in having created us in his image and likeness, as persons called to share in God's life to the point of realizing a graced identification with ...
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... sense as long as there is a basic understanding of the distinctions that have been briefly summarized here. With these distinctions in mind, we can read the term meditation and understand it in the context in which it is used. When the ...
... sense as long as there is a basic understanding of the distinctions that have been briefly summarized here. With these distinctions in mind, we can read the term meditation and understand it in the context in which it is used. When the ...
Contenido
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Meditative Experience | 42 |
A Ladder to Heaven | 72 |
A Monastery Without Walls | 101 |
The SelfTransforming Journey | 130 |
Entering the Mind of Christ | 175 |
Present Open and Awake | 203 |
Sit Still | 216 |
Sit Straight | 229 |
Slow Deep Natural Breathing | 242 |
Eyes Closed or Lowered Toward the Ground | 253 |
Walking Meditation | 266 |
Compassion | 278 |
Notes | 287 |
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Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
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