We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas. . … - Thomas Keating

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As we willingly enter each place of fear, each place of deficiency and insecurity in ourselves, we will discover that its walls are made of untruths, of old images of ourselves, of ancient fears, of false ideas of what is pure and what is not.

Thomas Keating

We are kept from the experience of Spirit because our inner world is cluttered with past traumas. . . As we begin to clear away this clutter, the energy of divine light and love begins to flow through our being.

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

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If you accept the belief that baptism incorporates us in the mystical body of Christ, into the divine DNA, then you might say that the Holy Spirit is present in each of us, and thus we have the capacity for the fullness of redemption, of transformation.

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