Thomas Keating
Thomas Keating
For the famous art forger of the same name, see Tom Keating. For the American football player of the same name, see Tom Keating...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth7 March 1923
CountryUnited States of America
world-religions arms essentials
It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.
letting-go prayer training
Centering prayer is a training in letting go.
discovery essentials our-time
The wisdom of all religions has to be respected. The discoveries of science are also essential for our time and the future.
practice stories way
The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.
venture enough tolerate
I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.
isms purpose elements
One of the great purposes of religion itself is being hindered by an exclusive-ism that doesn't take into account the common elements and values that we actually share.
religious humanity violence
It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.
religious children home
The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.
technology work-out alternatives
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.
humanity brain needs
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history.
becoming enough possibility
Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.
practice lifetime
To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.
buddhism important different
The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.
humility self forgetfulness
Humility is the forgetfulness of self.