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The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.
— Thomas Keating
The root of prayer is interior silence.
— Thomas Keating
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
— Thomas Keating
As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.
— Thomas Keating
Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.
— Thomas Keating
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.
— Thomas Keating
Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
— Thomas Keating
The chief thing that separates us from God is the thought that we are separated from God.
— Thomas Keating
What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It's amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.
— Thomas Keating
God 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 Keating
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.
— Thomas Keating
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 Keating
God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.
— Thomas Keating
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
— Thomas Keating
Centering prayer is a training in letting go.
— Thomas Keating
Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.
— Thomas Keating
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.
— Thomas Keating
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.
— Thomas Keating
To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
— Thomas Keating
God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.
— Thomas Keating
Humility is the forgetfulness of self.
— Thomas Keating
I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.
— Thomas Keating
