Quotes from Thomas Keating

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness.

God's first language is Silence. Everything else is a translation.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

Silence is God's language, and it's a very difficult language to learn.

To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.

God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.

God is a tremendous supporter of creation, especially of all living beings.

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.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

The root of prayer is interior silence.

Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

Difficulties arise whenever a committed relationship is succeeding. Love makes you vulnerable. . . . Your defenses relax and the dark side of your personality arises. . .

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

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.

Just by the very nature of our birth, we are on the spiritual journey.

Divine life is basically the inner freedom to choose the right and the good spontaneously.

Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.