The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom. Thomas Keating More Quotes by Thomas Keating More Quotes From Thomas Keating The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. Thomas Keating humility acceptance love The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality. Thomas Keating practice stories way Humility is the forgetfulness of self. Thomas Keating forgetfulness humility self Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . . Thomas Keating personality dark love To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice. Thomas Keating practice lifetime We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago. Thomas Keating people years moving To become who we are as creatures made in the image and likeness of God, we have to be nothing and everything at once, since this is what God is. ... If we accept who we are, we are manifesting God and radiating Christ. The latter unfolding of the divine life within us does not need to go anywhere Thomas Keating special doe needs is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of seeing reality changes in the process. A restructuring of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence in, through, and beyond everything that exists. Thomas Keating empowering unions reality Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously. Thomas Keating divine-life divine life-is Technology isn't fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions. Thomas Keating technology loss promise Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel. Thomas Keating giving-up spiritual desire One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change. Thomas Keating prayer giving thinking Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are. Thomas Keating dynamics looks needs Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree. Thomas Keating events self way We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions. Thomas Keating oneness heart profound Centering prayer is a training in letting go. Thomas Keating training prayer letting-go The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future. Thomas Keating our-time essentials discovery Science and technology have been embarrassed by two world wars, many smaller ones, and the spread of weapons that could destroy humanity. As a result, there is some loss of confidence in the great achievements of technology. Thomas Keating technology loss war We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history. Thomas Keating humanity brain needs Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities. Thomas Keating possibility becoming enough
