For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
Thomas KeatingGod will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.
Thomas KeatingTags: religion
Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas KeatingTags: prayer
"Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.
Thomas KeatingSt. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.
Thomas KeatingSilence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.
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