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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... thoughts can grasp or words can adequately convey. The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend 1 CHAPTER 1: Divine Destination.
... thoughts can grasp or words can adequately convey. The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend 1 CHAPTER 1: Divine Destination.
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... thoughts, memories, and other aspects of ego consciousness that tend to block the subtle, wholly spiritual contemplative states of realized oneness with God. Since the 1960s there has been a growing popularity of Yoga and Zen and other ...
... thoughts, memories, and other aspects of ego consciousness that tend to block the subtle, wholly spiritual contemplative states of realized oneness with God. Since the 1960s there has been a growing popularity of Yoga and Zen and other ...
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... thoughts and images. When the term appears in non-Christian literature or in some contemporary Christian writings, including this book, it most likely means what the traditional Christian literature means by contemplation or ...
... thoughts and images. When the term appears in non-Christian literature or in some contemporary Christian writings, including this book, it most likely means what the traditional Christian literature means by contemplation or ...
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... thoughts, feelings, and sensations that we experience in meditation. The guideline for meditation with respect to ... thoughts that arise in the mind. As each thought arises, simply be present, open, and awake to the thought as it arises ...
... thoughts, feelings, and sensations that we experience in meditation. The guideline for meditation with respect to ... thoughts that arise in the mind. As each thought arises, simply be present, open, and awake to the thought as it arises ...
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... thoughts that may be flowing through our mind. In meditation the goal is to neither think our thoughts nor try not to have any thoughts. Rather, the goal is to sit still and straight, meditatively aware of each thought as it arises ...
... thoughts that may be flowing through our mind. In meditation the goal is to neither think our thoughts nor try not to have any thoughts. Rather, the goal is to sit still and straight, meditatively aware of each thought as it arises ...
Contenido
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22 | |
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 |
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God James Finley Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |
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