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Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
Thomas Keating
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Thomas Keating
Age: 95 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 7
Died: 2018
Died: October 25
Catholic Priest
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New York City
New York
Thomas Aquinas Keating
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God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
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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.
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If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.
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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
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One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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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.
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Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
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You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
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If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.
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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.
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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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It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.
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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
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The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.
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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.
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