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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.
Thomas Keating
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Thomas Keating
Age: 95 †
Born: 1923
Born: March 7
Died: 2018
Died: October 25
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New York City
New York
Thomas Aquinas Keating
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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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God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
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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.
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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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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
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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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Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
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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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For us to remain in this world, our animal brain has to be there to support us.
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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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Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.
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Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
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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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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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Centering prayer is a training in letting go.
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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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Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
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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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To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
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