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The Better Part: Stages of Contemplative Living
The talks on which this book was based were given at the John Main Seminar in 1998, the annual international event of the World Community for Christian Meditaion. Previous presenters have included the Dalai Lama, Jean Vanier, Bede Griffi ths, and William Johnston. Father Keating's enlightening commentary on the contemplative meaning of the gospel, particularly the story of...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
May 15th 2007
by Continuum
(first published May 2000)
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Written with spiritual simplicity, this book is a wonderfiul introduction to someone, like myself, who had never heard of Centering Prayer.
Most interesting for me were the following passages:
"The spiritual journey is very hard to initiate if we have interiorized a negative or emotionally charged idea of God in early childhood such as 'God is a tyrant....an implacable judge.......or a policeman on the watch to catch me if I do wrong.' This is not religious education; it is a form of terrori...more
Most interesting for me were the following passages:
"The spiritual journey is very hard to initiate if we have interiorized a negative or emotionally charged idea of God in early childhood such as 'God is a tyrant....an implacable judge.......or a policeman on the watch to catch me if I do wrong.' This is not religious education; it is a form of terrori...more
beautifully written to help one understand living the life God calls us to live.
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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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