Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer

by Thomas Keating

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 1997

Overview

This beautiful gift book contains over 200 selections from the wisdom of several of Father Keating’s most popular and significant works, including the best selling Open Mind, Open Heart.

Key Features

• Provides instructional guidebooks, workbooks, and daily devotionals to ease you into silent worship
• Combines contemporary psychological wisdom with time-tested spiritual strategies
• Presents valuable insights and practical application

Contents

Top Highlights

“Lay people living quiet, prayerful lives in the world, who think they are not contemplative because they never became monks or nuns, and elderly religious, who think they are not contemplatives because of the misunderstandings about contemplative prayer in recent centuries, may be so holy that they are not even upset by their apparent failure as contemplatives. This is the triumph of hiddenness.” (Page 143)

“If we stop reflecting on ourselves, we will move into perfect peace. This innate tendency to be aware of oneself is the last stronghold of self-centeredness.” (Page 35)

“You are opening to Him by pure faith, not by means of concepts or feelings” (Page 21)

“Centering prayer] is … a journey into the unknown. It is a call to follow Jesus out of all the structures, security blankets, and even spiritual practices that serve as props. They are all left behind insofar as they are part of the false self system.… False self is an illusion. It is our way of conceiving who we are and what the world is.” (Page 22)

“You may feel called to turn interiorly to God without knowing why. The quality of your spiritual life is developing and enabling you to pick up vibrations from a world you did not previously perceive. Without deliberately thinking of God, you may find that He is often present in the midst of your daily occupations.” (Page 23)

Product Details

• Title: Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
• Author: Thomas Keating
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 144
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Contemplation; Meditations
• ISBNs: 9780826428219, 0826428215
• Resource ID: LLS:ACTVMDTTNS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:05:38Z

About Thomas Keating

Thomas Keating is known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St. Benedict’s Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he is a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and of Contemplative Outreach. He is the author of numerous books, particularly of the trilogy Open Mind, Open Heart; Invitation to Love; and The Mystery of Christ. Among his most recent books is The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living, compiled by S. Stephanie Iachetta. He served as abbot at St. Joseph’s Abbey in Massachusetts for 20 years before retiring to Snowmass, where he now resides.