On Divine Therapy Quotes

“The Divine Therapy is designed to enable us to negotiate this healing process according to genetic and temperamental factors, our personality and the circumstances of our lives. An enormous Intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself.”
― Thomas Keating, On Divine Therapy

“If you want to be free, he suggests, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room—the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you don’t run away. Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you.”
― Thomas Keating, On Divine Therapy

“The false self is based on two foundational pillars: one is the energy invested in the emotional programs for happiness and the other is the tendency to over-identify with the particular group from which we come or to which we belong.”
― Thomas Keating, On Divine Therapy

“When we decide to submit to the Divine Therapy, the first thing that God does is to reassure us that we are respected and loved by God. The idea that we are no good, unlovable or unworthy—beliefs that, as we have seen, may be firmly entrenched from early childhood—is an insult to God. God does not make junk; we make junk.”
― Thomas Keating, On Divine Therapy

“For many people they are the only way that the false values they absorbed as children are ever questioned, reevaluated, and put in the wastebasket. This is not to say that there are no values at all in one’s roles. It is the over-identification with them that makes it difficult or even impossible to fulfill them. Perhaps the only way to become a great parent is to be willing not to be one; for example, to let grownup children become whoever they want to be without regard to oneself. A similar letting go process is needed for every role model.”
― Thomas Keating, On Divine Therapy