Inner Room for Divine Therapy
Let Love Alone Speak.
Christian Mystic Centering Prayer - Thomas Keating.
June 19 , 2023
Inner Room for Divine Therapyβ¦β¦
Transcript
If you want to be free, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room - the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you donβt run away. Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you.
An enormous Intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself.
Gregory the Great expressed it as βresting in God".
Donβt judge centering prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy.
The deeper one's awareness of one's powerlessness and the more desperate, the more willing one is to reach out for help. This help is offered in the next two steps. You turn yourself over to a Higher Power who you believe can heal you and work with you in the long journey of dismantling the emotional programs for happiness. They are the root causes of all our problems.
How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them.
Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good.
The radical healing is the acceptance of the situation, because in some way God is present there.
The real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumption that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity. The false self is deeply entrenched.
We have to accept the idea that the word "I" does not have a fixed and clear and obvious referent. This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination.
The contemplative journey, because it involves the purification of the unconscious, is not a magic carpet to bliss. It is an exercise of letting go of the false self, a humbling process, because it is the only self we know.
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.
God has not promised to take away our trials, but to help us to change our attitudes toward them. That is what holiness really is. In this life, happiness is rooted in our basic attitude toward reality.
For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human, is to become fully divine.
The Spirit calls us to transformation of our inmost being, and indeed of all our faculties, into the divine way of being and acting.
Divine love picks us up when we sincerely believe nobody else will. We then begin to experience freedom, peace, calm, equanimity, and liberation from cravings
A total surrender of ourselves to the spiritual journey is required
When the presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, divine life is pouring into the world.
God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of this Divine life in us.
Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.
To live in the presence of God on a continuous basis can become a kind of fourth dimension to our three-dimensional world, forming an invisible but real background to everything that we do or that happens in our lives.
Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.
Whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it can only be a pointer toward the Mystery that can never be articulated in words. All that words can do is point in the direction of the Mystery.
Let Love Alone Speak.
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