Julia

“the radical healing is the acceptance of the situation, because in some way God is present there.”
― Thomas Keating, Invitation to Love: The Way of Christian Contemplation

“It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership

“As soon as we notice we are annoyed or angry about something, we tend to protect ourselves by projecting the cause of our upsetting emotion onto a situation or another person: “They” did this to me. “They” are always a problem. But, in fact, the real problem is not “them” but us. All biases and prejudices are the attitudes of a child from ages four to eight. If they are present in us, we are still functioning at the level of a preadolescent.”
― Thomas Keating, The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

“God is available through many sources besides the religious quest. I don’t mean to imply that psychology replaces the work of religion, but it seems to me that it greatly supports religion and brings a certain clarity to areas of the human condition, especially the discovery of the unconscious.”
― Thomas Keating, The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation