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The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation
The psychological roots of authentic spiritual life, by one of the great teachers of contemplative prayer.
Paperback, 64 pages
Published
June 28th 1999
by Paulist Press
(first published June 1999)
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This book makes me wonder. I like books that do this... I take little snipets with me. It's the kind of book that I read and will reread again. It's recommended reading for Mercy Center's Spiritual Direction Program in year 1. (3year program) Although it has newly been added to their list. To sum it up, this book is a little gem. If you're wondering what it is like to be christian contemplative this book will set you on your way.
Read like a sales pitch for contemplative prayer. In the process of rushing to make that pitch he made many definitive assertions without really backing up the statements at all. Since I disagreed with several of those and am undecided on others, I was left feeling unsatisfied with the book. I guessing that he has to present some of the ideas in a better format elsewhere.
This little book is packed with life. I strongly recommend it.
There is not a single part of this book that I do not love. There was not a single page on which I did not learn something. I cannot recommend this book enough to everyone I know.
This book can be summarized in two words..."meditation good". It didn't say much more than that, but he used a lot of words to say it.
I love this book
My introduction to silence and "meditation" in the christian tradition.
anything by Fr. Thomas Keating is worth reading and practicing
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Keating entered the Cistercian Order in Valley Falls, Rhode Island in January, 1944. He was appointed Superior of St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado in 1958, and was elected abbot of St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, Massachusetts in 1961. He returned to Snowmass after retiring as abbot of Spencer in 1981, where he established a program of ten-day intensive retreats in the practice of Centeri...more
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