Bøger af Thomas Keating

Centrerende bøn har som udgangspunkt, at Guds kraft er til stede i alt det skabte – også i mennesket. Den anviser en praktisk metode til at gå ind i ”sit indre rum” ved at give slip på ydre anliggender, symboliseret ved at man lukker øjnene og åbner sig for Guds nærvær og virke. Det er den amerikanske cisterciensermunk Thomas Keating, der har pustet nyt liv i en gammel bønsform. Han beskriver centrerende bøn som et middel til at forny den kristne kontemplative tradition (den indre bøn) og gøre den mere kendt og lettere tilgængelig. ”Centrerende bøn er at åbne sig for og overgive sig til Gud. Den åndelige rejse kræver ikke, at man tager nogen steder hen, for Gud er allerede hos os og i os. Centrerende bøn er at åbne sind og hjerte, krop og følelser – hele vores eksistens – for Gud, det Yderste Mysterium, som er hinsides ord, tanker og følelser. Og målet er en indre forvandling,” skriver Thomas Keating. Åbent sind åbent hjerte er solgt i mere end en halv million eksemplarer og oversat til ti sprog.

Keating discusses the principles of contemplative prayer--the retreat into the "inner room" mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6. In the inner room, God acts as a divine therapist, healing us and forcing us to recognize how many barriers we put up between ourselves and God. Steiner Books

In That We May Be One: Christian Non-Duality by Thomas Keating points to the ultimate destination of the spiritual journey. One of the chief architects of the Centering Prayer movement, Keating has guided countless people of all walks on the contemplative path toward wholeness. He speaks to the inner transformation experienced through daily silent meditation practice: Centering Prayer establishes the letting go of self, making room for the gradual development of consciousness beyond rational thoughtand into what some spiritual traditions call non-duality.Keating reflects on Eastern philosophies of enlightenment and awakening as he presents core teachings of mystical Christianity. Drawing parallels to advances in science and technology, as well as to teachings found in the Gospel of John and the letters of Paul, Keating invites us to become who we already are: It is a simple program, but hard to do. All you have to do is do nothing. It does not mean that you actually do nothing...Emptiness is not nothingness, but emptiness with an openness to becoming everything.

This book explores how speculative thinking is shaping how we relate to our entangled social, mental, and environmental ecologies. It examines how speculative philosophies and concepts are changing geographical research methods and techniques, whilst also developing how speculative thinking transforms the way human, non-human, and more-than-human things are conceptualised in research practices across the social sciences, arts, and humanities. Offering the first dedicated compendium of geographical engagements with speculation and speculative thinking, the chapters in this edited collection advance debates about how affective, imperceptible, and infra-sensible qualities of environments might be written about through alternative registers and ontologies of experience. Organised around the themes of Ethics, Technologies, and Aesthetics, the book will appeal to those engaging with architecture, Black political theory, fiction, cinema, children¿s geographies, biotechnologies, philosophy, rural studies, arts practice, and nuclear waste studies as speculative research practices appropriate for addressing contemporary ecological problems.Chapters 1, 3 and 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Beloved Trappist monk Thomas Keating is best known as one of the primary founders of the Centering Prayer movement, which made the contemplative dimension of Christianity accessible through a simple method of silent, still meditation. He is also known as the convener of the Snowmass Interreligious Conference, which helped spawn the global Inter-spiritual movement. Keating's open invitation to people of all walks to embark on a spiritual journey, coupled with his emphasis on the oneness of all creation, made him a 20th-century harbinger of 21st-century ideals."If something is something, it cannot be its opposite-or so it might seem. Not so with God, because God is...beyond opposites." In Thomas Keating's signature wise and whimsical style, this little book invites us to think big. "Think of God in a very big way. And if you do, that is too small." Transcribed from a 2012 keynote address, God Is All in All introduces some mighty themes-including nature as revelation, mystical teachings on interdependence, new cosmologies of religion and science, and evolutionary understandings of what it means to be human-in a much-needed update to theologies Keating describes as "out of date." Outlining a three-part spiritual journey from recognizing a divine Other, to becoming the Other, to the realizing there is no other, Keating boldly states "Religion is not the only path to God." Thoroughly Christian and fully interspiritual, this much-beloved outlier Trappist monk offers a message of "compassion, not condemnation" in a contemplative embrace of the cross as a symbol of humility, inviting those who would become co-redeemers of the world to join him in the kind of meditation and contemplative prayer that allows the transcendent self to emerge. "Be still and you will know, not by the knowledge of the mindbut by the knowledge of the heart, who God is and who you are."

A distillation of over seventy years as a monastic and more than three decades of writing on centering prayer, Reflections on the Unknowable is Fr. Thomas Keatings latest volume on how we might develop our intimacy with God and our experience of the Christian contemplative tradition. The first part of the book consists of a long interview with Fr. Thomas, in which he examines concepts of the divine?including the astonishments, playfulness, and transformation available to the individual willing to open the door to God. The second section consists of thirty-one brief homilies, which range over topics as diverse as the Trinity and the message of Epiphany, spiritual evolution and cultivating interior silence, and the treasure of spiritual poverty and the beauty of chaos.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Thomas Keating is a Cistercian monk and is a founder of the Centering Prayer movement. This is perhaps Keating's most readable and enlightening work.

This book collects the intimate talks and daily presentations made by Trappist monk Thomas Keating to members of Contemplative Outreach, the organization Keating helped establish to promote the revival of the Christian mystical tradition. Oriented toward people who have been practicing centering prayer for several years, CONSENTING is addressed primarily to those with some experience of the spiritual journey and especially to those engaged in some form of contemplative service.

Reflections and advice on Centering Prayer's possibilities-and its pitfalls-are presented with clarity and simplicity, with a vision of the deeper life of the soul that contemplative prayer can bring about.

Thomas Keating has spent over fifty years in sustained practice and devotion to the spiritual life. The results of this creative humble activity are now summarized in his remarkable book: FRUITS AND GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. As Father Keating says, the spiritual journey is a gradual process of enlarging our emotional mental and physical relationship with the divine reality that is present in us but one not ordinarily accessible to our emotions or concepts. The spiritual journey teaches us: first to believe in the Divine Indwelling within us, fully present and energizing every level of our being; secondly to recognize that this energy is benign healing and transforming; and thirdly to enjoy it''s gradual unfolding, step-by-step, both in prayer and action.

Thomas Keating was a Cistercian monk who founded the worldwide 'Contemplative Outreach', teaching people the art of meditation. Following upon Open Mind, Open Heart, which presents a profound formation in Christian prayer, this book demonstrates the contemplative dimension of Christian worship. Here Father Keating recovers the deeper sense of the liturgical year and shares a theological and mystical perspective on the major feasts of the annual cycle. The reader is immersed in the wonder of faith in the mystery of Christ and of the unique nature of God's action and presence in and through the liturgy of our lives.