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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... spirituality have tended almost exclusively to use the masculine personal pronoun in referring to God. Consistent with current sensibilities in contemporary Christian writings, I have chosen to use inclusive language in referring to God ...
... spirituality have tended almost exclusively to use the masculine personal pronoun in referring to God. Consistent with current sensibilities in contemporary Christian writings, I have chosen to use inclusive language in referring to God ...
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... spiritual journey. For, as you have no doubt discovered, the further we travel along the selftransforming path of meditation, the more we realize ourselves to be immersed in beginnings that never end. To be more advanced in meditation ...
... spiritual journey. For, as you have no doubt discovered, the further we travel along the selftransforming path of meditation, the more we realize ourselves to be immersed in beginnings that never end. To be more advanced in meditation ...
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... spiritual wisdom. But to do so would take us away from this work's intention of exploring specifically Christian ... spirituality during the five and half years I lived as a monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a cloistered Trappist ...
... spiritual wisdom. But to do so would take us away from this work's intention of exploring specifically Christian ... spirituality during the five and half years I lived as a monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a cloistered Trappist ...
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... spiritual dimensions of our lives. I will be referring to the more surface, matter-of-fact levels of consciousness as ego consciousness. By ego consciousness, I am referring to the consciousness proper—to our self-reflective bodily self ...
... spiritual dimensions of our lives. I will be referring to the more surface, matter-of-fact levels of consciousness as ego consciousness. By ego consciousness, I am referring to the consciousness proper—to our self-reflective bodily self ...
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... spiritual path is like this. We have but to remain humbly open to the first stirrings of our journey into God, and our journey, will, in God's good time, get plenty deep, soon enough. Actually, it's more mysterious than that. Imagine a ...
... spiritual path is like this. We have but to remain humbly open to the first stirrings of our journey into God, and our journey, will, in God's good time, get plenty deep, soon enough. Actually, it's more mysterious than that. Imagine a ...
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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