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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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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
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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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Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
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It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
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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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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
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God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.
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The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
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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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To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
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Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.
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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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We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.
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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 or do anything special.
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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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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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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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