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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... Transforming Journey CHAPTER 7: Entering the Mind of Christ CHAPTER 8: Present, Open, and Awake CHAPTER 9: Sit Still CHAPTER 10: Sit Straight CHAPTER 11: Slow, Deep, Natural Breathing CHAPTER 12: Eyes Closed or Lowered Toward the Ground ...
... Transforming Journey CHAPTER 7: Entering the Mind of Christ CHAPTER 8: Present, Open, and Awake CHAPTER 9: Sit Still CHAPTER 10: Sit Straight CHAPTER 11: Slow, Deep, Natural Breathing CHAPTER 12: Eyes Closed or Lowered Toward the Ground ...
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... transforming path along which we are awakened to our eternal oneness with God. Throughout this book I use both the masculine and feminine personal pronouns in referring to God. In the JudeoChristian tradition God is understood as ...
... transforming path along which we are awakened to our eternal oneness with God. Throughout this book I use both the masculine and feminine personal pronouns in referring to God. In the JudeoChristian tradition God is understood as ...
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... monks and nuns living in monasteries, hermits, and countless seekers living in the world have yielded to the transforming power of the Spirit of God within us. It is to these monastic, mystical traditions of 2 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
... monks and nuns living in monasteries, hermits, and countless seekers living in the world have yielded to the transforming power of the Spirit of God within us. It is to these monastic, mystical traditions of 2 CHRISTIAN MEDITATION.
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... 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 the psalms each day. As a novice, I spoke ...
... 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 the psalms each day. As a novice, I spoke ...
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... transforming realization of oneness with God. In this mystical realization of oneness with God we are liberated from ... transformed in contemplative oneness with God. Contemplation might come flooding in as an overwhelming realization ...
... transforming realization of oneness with God. In this mystical realization of oneness with God we are liberated from ... transformed in contemplative oneness with God. Contemplation might come flooding in as an overwhelming realization ...
Contenido
1 | |
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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