What are some of the common symptoms of rigidity that come up in the first few years of doing centering prayer? We get caught grinding away on the sacred word. We try to use the sacred word to battle against thoughts. We unconsciously hammer on the sacred word in our mind. We try so hard, and in our trying, find that God is far away from us. We hope that the sacred word, if we use it just right, will get
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