Q: To avoid ‘thoughts’ during Centering Prayer, I find it helpful to pray in tongues, but I have never heard this mentioned in this connection. St. Paul says: ‘If […]
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Centering Prayer and the Noting Technique of Mindfulness
Q: I’m a Catholic and I am most interested in developing my relationship with God through contemplation. I have become acquainted with Centering Prayer but I am also practicing […]
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Seeing with the Eye of the Heart: The Practice of Visio Divina
By Ingrid Forsberg St. Paul, Minnesota (reprinted with permission from Ingrid and Contemplative Outreach of Chicago) “Within my darkest times, you kindled an awakening in me” -Taizé Community In […]
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Is Centering Prayer Just for Christians?
Q: I thought Centering Prayer was just for Christians. When reviewing your website, it seems that Buddhist, Sufi and others can use it to get close to God. But isn’t […]
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Letters from Thomas Keating
Note: To improve the contents of the Thomas Keating archive at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the Contemplative Outreach global community has been encouraged to send in any personal […]
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Zen in a Christian Monastery – Fertile Ground, Open Mind
By Ron Barnett, Ph.D. Germantown, Maryland, USA What did Fr. Thomas Keating learn from Zen? My contemplative teacher, Fr. Thomas Keating (1923-2018), learned from many sources – Indigenous American […]
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Telephone Conversations between Thomas Keating and Isabel Castellanos, April 7, 2015 – October 31, 2018
The following is a collection of some of the notes I took after speaking with Father Thomas on the phone during the last three years of his life. They […]
Centering Prayer and Use of White Noise
Q: I have practiced Centering Prayer in the past to good effect, but then years ago I had heart surgery and got a mechanical aortic valve. Staying alive as […]
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Experiences of Divine Therapy in Centering Prayer
Q: I have been practicing Centering Prayer for almost a year now and have gradually moved to twice daily, twenty minutes each time. I have experienced interior disturbances sometimes […]
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A Word from the Contemplative Outreach Prison Outreach Service Team
We’d like to introduce ourselves to you, especially if you’ve never heard of us before. We are the Prison Outreach Service Team. Our goal is to bring Centering Prayer […]
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