110 Quotes by Thomas Keating

Service without seeking any return characterizes the Ultimate Reality.

What I really wanted was to fall in love with God. It’s amazing what obstacles there are within us, or at least in me, that seem to slow this process.

Contemplative prayer is a deepening of faith that moves beyond thoughts and concepts. One just listens to God, open and receptive to the divine presence in one’s inmost being as its source. One listens not with a view to hearing something, but with a view to becoming aware of the obstacles to one’s friendship with God.

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God’s extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

Where am I? Where am I in relation to God, to myself, and to others? These are the basic questions of human life.

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.

Technology isn’t fulfilling its promise of unlimited progress and solving every problem through technology. With the Enlightenment and its aftermath, there already was a general loss of confidence in the Western religions.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world’s religions have developed maps to describe this process.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.