Silence Teaches | Rich Lewis
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I am currently reading Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God by Brian Zahnd.
“God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There has never been a time when God was not like Jesus; we haven’t always known this, but now we do. God is like Jesus!”
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It is best to learn to silence the faculties and to cause them to be still so that God may speak.
St. John of the Cross
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We Quakers believe that every moment, every scene, every action is God-imbued and thus sacramental.
J. Brent Bill
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Silent prayer is an act of faith. Each time I sit in silence God will act in me and teach me how to live.
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Photography is a wonderful contemplative practice. The camera lens focuses on God's presence.
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We all need, forever, what Jesus described as “the beginner’s mind” of a curious child.
Richard Rohr
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This is not just a “how to” book or a theological book. It is a book that shares how Centering Prayer has healed and transformed me. And it can do the same for you!
Read more in Sitting with God: A Journey to Your True Self Through Centering Prayer.
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I am excited to share my most popular posts of 2016.
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God is in all of my work. When I clean the dishes, vacuum the family room, and help my child with his homework, God is present.
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The same Power that emanated from Jesus is within each one of us.
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Contemplative prayer is a silent sit with God. It is wordless prayer. I bring no agenda.
#CenteringPrayer
#SilenceTeaches
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When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
- Kahlil Gibran
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Silent prayer teaches you to be the person God wants you to be.
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Silent prayer teaches me to to take steps each day. The path will become more clear. It is okay to walk in the dark.
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Mystery is good for theology. And mystery is good for the soul.
Brian Zahnd
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A prayer labyrinth is a wonderful contemplative practice. Both silence and action play vital roles.
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As I recite the "Jesus Prayer", I am comforted. Jesus is immediately present. I am never alone. He walks with me on my journey.
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In the morning, while it was still very dark, he got up and went out to a deserted place, and there he prayed.
Mark 1:35
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Silence is not empty. It is filled with God.
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What happens while we sit in silent prayer?
God acts deep, deep within us.
We may not even know it.
But it happens.
God will do a great work within us.
This work is unique and specially tailored just for you.
Message me and say:
“Send”
I will send you my Free Ebook.
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I plead with you, for the love of God, do not give up on your prayer. Start over again every day.
- William. Meninger
#CenteringPrayer
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But all the information in the world does not of itself accumulate into wisdom.
Richard Rohr
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Photography is a wonderful contemplative practice. The camera lens focuses on God’s presence.
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God is not something we believe in as much as something we feel and experience......
Mike McHargue
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“Dying to self means being willing to let go of what I want (or think I want) in order to create space for God to direct, lead, and guide me into a truer way of being.”
Cynthia Bourgeault
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During silent prayer I sit with Jesus, the great teacher.
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I used to believe I entered Centering Prayer to be filled with God.
I do not need to be filled with God.
God never stopped being in me.
This is a place I come from.
It teaches me who I am.
It teaches me how to live.
Message me.
I will send you my Free Ebook.
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Silent prayer teaches me that my thoughts do not always need to be spoken.
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Silent prayer teaches me that my thoughts are not who I am.
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Lectio divina has become an important and wonderful complement to my centering prayer practice.
#LectioDivina
#CenteringPrayer
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Faith leads to the ‘vision of things unseen’.
Laurence Freeman
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If you notice, the whole narrative arc of Scripture is about journey, wandering, and exodus, and almost never about arriving.
@BrandanJR
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You don’t even need to understand it intellectually or theologically to participate in the flow of God.
Richard Rohr
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Lectio Divina describes a way of reading Sacred Scripture where you let go of any agenda and open yourself to God's presence.
N. Amato
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Quaker silence encourages us to relax into the love of God until we hear the Spirit’s voice whispering softly in our soul’s ear.
J. B. Bill
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We do not find our own center, it finds us. Our own mind will not be able to figure it out.
Richard Rohr
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Silent prayer teaches me patience and presence.
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Do we take a moment and consider that God is just as present in our workplace cubicle as in the adoration chapel at church?
Carl McColman
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My human body is animated by the actions of the divine spark within. I cannot separate the two.
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Suspicion will almost always find evidence for what it suspects.
Richard Rohr
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What are the fruits of silent prayer? confidence, wisdom, compassion, empathy, inner peace, joy, energy, productivity, patience, presence.
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Silent prayer is life changing. It is God changing you from the inside out.
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Humility is gentler: it neither worships nor rejects the self but rather places its attention elsewhere (on God).
Carl McColman
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In the New Testament, and particularly in Jesus, the most common image for what God is offering us is a banquet.
Richard Rohr
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Death to self is releasing the desire to have things my way and being open to how God leads me today.
Jan Johnson
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Silent prayer softens my heart and opens my eyes and ears.
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Silent prayer teaches me not to be so quick to judge others. I have learned "the silent and sacred pause".
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Silent prayer is an act of faith. It teaches me endurance. It teaches me how to be the person God wants me to be.
#SilenceTeaches
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I practice centering prayer on a daily basis. Centering prayer opens me to the presence and action of God within: Rest (contemplatio).
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If we desperately cling to what has left us, we miss amazing opportunities that God has placed in front of us.
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Jesus is the manifestation of God in human form. Or as Brian Zahnd likes to say, “Jesus is what God has to say.”
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The earliest Christian mystics, especially the Desert Fathers, used silence as an integral part of their religious discipline.
J. B. Bill
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The spiritual journey does not require going anywhere because God is already present and within us.
Thomas Keating
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Centering Prayer is a movement inspired by grace from conversation to communion, from activity to receptivity.
Thomas Keating
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Centering prayer is simple. It involves three steps: 1) Show up, 2) Let go, and 3) Open your heart. God will do the rest.
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Lectio divina assumes that God is inviting us into interaction and conversation as we read Scripture.
@Jan_Johnson
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Like ocean waves that travel thousands of miles before reaching land, the Spirit too is always on the move.
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To become spiritually mature we have to recognize that suffering cannot be avoided and paradox is part of the program.
Brian Zahnd
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Our greatest temptation is to try to change other people instead of ourselves.
Richard Rohr
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What does self-care look like for you?
One way I practice self-care is a silent prayer practice called centering prayer.
Let me know if you want to learn more.
I will send you my free ebook.
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When church lost its meaning,my cathedral became the night sky,my chosen worship instrument a telescope.
M McHargue
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The ego lives in fear. It does not want to be offended. The ego wants to win. This does not need to be who we are.
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My true self says, "Take small steps each day. With action, clarity will come."
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During silent prayer I trust God. I let God show me what paths I am to take today.
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A mystic is someone who believes God can be experienced but not defined through languages. A mystic is someone who sits with God. No words are spoken. They simply sit with the experience and let it change them.
Mike McHargue
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Silent prayer teaches you how to open your heart to God and those you come in contact with throughout your day.
#SilenceTeaches
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Silent prayer stabilizes us despite our often chaotic and busy lives.
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The silence is not empty. God is full and present and you have rested secure in divine love.
Jan Johnson
#LectioDivina
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When we still our minds during silent prayer we learn how to walk with God during our non-silent times.
#SilenceTeaches
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You realize that Someone Else is living in you and through you, that you are part of a much Bigger Mystery.
Richard Rohr
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The point is never to “prove” the Bible, but to enter into the mystery through the portal of Scripture.
Brian Zahnd
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Sometimes I pray a simple prayer … The ancient Jesus Prayer: “Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me.”
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You cannot fail at centering prayer.
It does not matter if it is 1 minute or 20 minutes.
The most important thing to do is show up.
And keep showing up.
If you do it, it will do you.
Over time you will discover wonderful fruits of your practice.
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Centering Prayer is not a race.
It’s a marathon.
Centering Prayer practiced on a daily basis will transform you.
If you are faithful to your practice, your practice will be faithful to you.
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I bet you did not know this about me.
When I first started to practice silence it was painful.
I had heard that silence will transform you.
So, I began to sit in silence.
It was brutal!
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The journey into the mystery of God is necessarily a journey into the “unfamiliar.”
Richard Rohr
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Silent prayer teaches me that God does not want fear to hinder me from trying new things.
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Silent prayer prepares my mind to be governed by the Spirit.
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Joy and sorrow are the parents of our spiritual growth.
- Henri Nouwen
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All that words can do is point in the direction of the Mystery.
Thomas Keating
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There is enough for everyone. We do not need to compete, divide and split the field. We do not need to be jealous of others’ success, instead, we can choose to help each other to succeed and celebrate their success. Compete does not need to be mantra!
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Christ told his followers that what goes into the mouth is not as important as what comes out.
Mary Margaret Funk
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God honors our honest questions. He is not surprised by them, nor is he ashamed to be our God when we pose them.
Peter Enns
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The Spirit, dwelling in our inmost being, communicates to us at every moment the divine presence that is love.
Thomas Keating
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I teach Centering Prayer in my local community. I am happy to visit with your community. Contact me for more info.
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Silent prayer teaches me to let go of my ego's self-assertion.
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Our earliest Christian teachers reiterated that “God became human in order that the human person may become God.”
Mary Margaret Funk
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Silent prayer teaches us how to discern when it is time for us to "go" and "move" forward in faith.
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We all need a daily dose of silence.
Even better,
Two doses.
Message me.
I will send you my free ebook on centering prayer.
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If we can let go of thoughts during silent prayer we can also let go of these same thoughts that hinder us from performing our daily tasks.
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Without getting to confusing here, dear friend in God, it does seem that part of our way is losing our way.
William Meninger
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