Are there ways to help beginners and advancing practitioners who are struggling? One of the things they need to know is that it’s alright to be distracted most of the […]
Read More… from 2022 December: Deepening Practice
Are there ways to help beginners and advancing practitioners who are struggling? One of the things they need to know is that it’s alright to be distracted most of the […]
Read More… from 2022 December: Deepening Practice
So here we are in a sharp confrontation with two apparently unreconcilable assertions or implications. Is peace something that Jesus brings or it isn’t? Please note, this pdf includes clickable, […]
Read More… from 2022 June: Our Myths of Peace
Some theologians have said God is reality, not just our reality but everything that in a sense is God, in a sense of coming from the Ultimate Reality as the […]
Read More… from 2021 December: Centering Prayer in Uncentered Times
Our ultimate goal is to integrate the active and contemplative dimensions of reality within us and around us, which some mystics call ever-present awareness, enlightenment, or waking up. To handle […]
Read More… from 2021 June: Process of Awakening
” … the best description of God is “is-ness” without any limit … God is everything.” […]
Read More… from 2020 December: Who is God?
“My heart is solitary now. It finds no companionship anywhere And no wish to find any.” […]
Read More… from 2020 June: Twilight of the Self
Without thinking or feeling some emotion, there is just awareness. There is then no desire for bliss, enlightenment, or to teach others… […]
Read More… from 2019 December: Letting Go of the Self-Made Self
Note: Fr. Thomas has graced us with a posthumous gift of another previously unpublished essay to deepen our understanding of the spiritual journey. And more … […]
Read More… from 2019 June: A Great Presence Arises
Our Beloved Thomas Keating, although no longer with us, taught us the surrender to silence that is God’s first language but also followed the footprints of God in the sciences, […]
Read More… from 2018 December: God and the New Science
The latest issue of the CO NEWS is now available, highlighting contemplative service — and more: “The Challenge of Servant Leadership,” by Fr. Thomas Keating “The Importance of Relationship,” by Pat Johnson “Service […]
Read More… from 2018 June: The Challenge of Servant Leadership
The Unfolding of Centering Prayer by Fr. Thomas Keating – The essence and heart of Centering Prayer is consenting to God’s presence and action within. It leads to contemplation and […]
Read More… from 2017 December: The Unfolding of Centering Prayer
Introduction to The Revised Vision of Contemplative Outreach by Fr. Thomas Keating – Last year as our leadership team began work on its manner of functioning as servant leaders of […]
Read More… from 2017 June: The Revised Vision of Contemplative Outreach