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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.
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 divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
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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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We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
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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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The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
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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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God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
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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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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 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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