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Manifesting God
Keating discusses the principles of contemplative prayer?the retreat into the ?inner room? mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6. In the inner room, God acts as a divine therapist, healing us and forcing us to recognize how many barriers we put up between ourselves and God. This process is the foundation of centering prayer?a technique of prayer that Keating and other contempo...more
Paperback, 139 pages
Published
October 28th 2005
by Lantern Books
(first published 2005)
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This would my first time to read a book written by a modern day monk. Thomas Keating had been actively teaching people the value of contemplative prayer which was started by the desert Christians in the 4th century AD. This method of contemplation was practiced even before the more formalized religion had emerged.
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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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“For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.”
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