Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Emotional Programs for Happiness; 2. The False Self in Action; 3. The Afflictive Emotions; 4. The Human Condition; 5. Mythic Membership Consciousness; 6. Attitudes Towards God; 7. Mental Egoic Consciousness; 8. The Four Consents; 9. Bernie; 10. Anthony as a Paradigm of the Spiritual Journey; 11. The Night of Sense: Freedom from the False Self; 12. Special Trials in the Night of Sense; 13. Anthony in the Tombs: Freedom from Cultural Conditioning; 14. The Effects of the Night of Sense; 15. The Stages of Contemplative Prayer; 16. The Night of Spirit; 17. The Transforming Union; 18. The First Four Beatitudes; 19. The Last Four Beatitudes; 20. The Essence of Centering Prayer; 21. Pure Faith; 22. From Contemplation to Action; 23. Contemplation in Action; 24. Spirituality in Everyday Life; Appendices; Notes; Glossary of Terms; Bibliography.
20th anniversary edition of a best-selling spiritual classic by one of the founders of the Centering Prayer movement.
20th anniversary edition of a best-selling spiritual classic by one of the founders of the Centering Prayer movement.
Father Thomas Keating is known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he is a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and of Contemplative Outreach.