Thomas Keating

[ConnieLard]

"The triumph of grace enables people to live their ordinary lives divinely."
                                                (from OPEN MIND, OPEN HEART, by Thomas Keating)

[mike]

Good quote

[Petals]

Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.  — Father Thomas Keating


Here is some interesting info on Thomas Keating...
It helps that Keating also has an unusually open-minded attitude towards the meditative practices of other traditions and has studied with spiritual teachers from a variety of Hindu and Buddhist lineages, for this lead to the creation of the Snowmass Interreligious Conference in 1982, where teachers from diverse paths meet regularly to compare notes and evaluate the successes and failures of their respective practices. Other organizations graced by the presence of Keating include the Monastic Interreligious Dialogue (which sponsors exchanges between the monks and nuns of every religion), and the International Committee for Peace Council.

Keating is also a best-selling author, having penned, along with many other publications, the best-selling Open Heart, Open Mind in 1986, a clarion call for many to the need for transformational practice within the Christian tradition.

Amazingly, within this flurry of activity Keating has nevertheless found the time to deepen his own relationship to the Divine—which he likens "to two friends sitting in silence, being in each other's presence"—to such a degree that he is sought the world over for his extraordinary warmth, humility, and deep-centered love.

[ConnieLard]

Thanks, Trueblue! I am currently rereading OPEN HEART, OPEN MIND.