Centering Prayer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Centering Prayer

My Beloved Companion, Steadfast Guide, Eternal Beckoner, Restorer of Life, I am indebted forever to your presence. I place my trust in you once again as the breath of your love goes forth. - Joyce Rupp, Essence of Love, Prayer Seeds, p. 173

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Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will? Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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… [where] the quietened and energetically collected heart actually participates holographically in a more universal and objective knowingness” (Cynthia Bourgeault, The Corner of Fourth and Nondual).

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Only a person who has recognized his or her own need, even despair, is ready for the kingdom; those who feel that they are self-sufficient … remain caught in their egocentricity.” ~ John A. Sanford, The Kingdom Within

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God keeps plowing right through them, inviting us to follow … The problem is not that we are loved any less. The problem is that people we cannot stand are loved just as much as we are, by a God with an upsetting sense of community.” ~ Barbara Brown Taylor, Home By Another Way

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Can you love people and lead them without imposing your will? Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things? ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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This leads into the night of sense as described by Saint John of the Cross in The Dark Night of the Soul. God is letting us in on the secret of our weakness, not as a judge but as the most intimate kind of sharing between friends.” ~ Thomas Keating, Reflections on the Unknowable

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~ Introduction, The Common Heart: An Experience of Interreligious Dialogue, edited by Netanel Miles-Yepez and with gratitude to Antonio Benet for the summary

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Christianity is incarnational and participatory and thus we are invited to ascend here now, in the very circumstances of our ordinary lives. As the modern-day contemplative mystic, Bernadette Roberts, often said, “As it goes for Jesus, so it goes for us.”

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Where does this charity come from? It is being infused into us in the silent seedbed of contemplative prayer. The whole of contemporary society is contrary to that movement … whereas the movement of the Spirit leads to freedom." ~ Thomas Keating, Fruits and Gifts of the Spirit

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