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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... silence, more broken and lost than I realized, and being as sincere as I could be about living a contemplative way of life. I was following a silent path, along which I was being awakened to a sense of oneness with God that utterly ...
... silence, more broken and lost than I realized, and being as sincere as I could be about living a contemplative way of life. I was following a silent path, along which I was being awakened to a sense of oneness with God that utterly ...
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... had found its way into a refuge in which I was no longer safe. For reasons that are also complex, I told no one about what I was going through. My silence further isolated me in my ongoing inability to 14 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... had found its way into a refuge in which I was no longer safe. For reasons that are also complex, I told no one about what I was going through. My silence further isolated me in my ongoing inability to 14 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... silence and poverty of meditation, I might undergo that blessed metamorphosis of mind and heart in which I might realize Christ's life to be my own everlasting life. And so I resumed the practice of daily meditation that I had begun to ...
... silence and poverty of meditation, I might undergo that blessed metamorphosis of mind and heart in which I might realize Christ's life to be my own everlasting life. And so I resumed the practice of daily meditation that I had begun to ...
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... . When I am leading silent meditation retreats, a room of eighty to a hundred or so men and women gather for sessions of group meditation. When the meditation sessions begin, each person present 20 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... . When I am leading silent meditation retreats, a room of eighty to a hundred or so men and women gather for sessions of group meditation. When the meditation sessions begin, each person present 20 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... silence begins to settle on the group, each person there is gathered into the one communal mystery in which we all ... silent simplicity of meditation. I hope you find here insights into how meditation might be for you a grounding place ...
... silence begins to settle on the group, each person there is gathered into the one communal mystery in which we all ... silent simplicity of meditation. I hope you find here insights into how meditation might be for you a grounding place ...
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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