#Meditative Prayer

[plantedinchrist]

Thomas Merton on meditative prayer in Thoughts on Solitude.

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with his mind and lips, but in a certain sense with his whole being. Prayer is then not just a formula of words, or a series of desires springing up in the heart—it is the orientation of our whole body, mind and spirit to God in silence, attention, and adoration. All good meditative prayer is a conversion of our entire self to God.”

(Image: Yongsung Kim)

#thomas merton #prayer #meditative prayer #book quotes #thoughts on solitude #kim yongsun

[eileensmith]

Prayer for a Peaceful Holiday

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[goodvibesatpeace]

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[saint-ambrosef]

my unpopular Catholic opinion is that while praying the rosary is of course wonderful, it is at the end of the day a personal devotion and may not be a great fit for everyone. it's kinda treated as the devout person's staple prayer, with the unflattering assumption that anyone who doesn't pray it often is less pious than those who do.

the rosary is not a requirement for sanctification and there are many, many other personal devotions through which someone can pursue a prayerful relationship with God. we all gravitate toward different styles of prayer, and that's okay.

#i will pray it once in a blue moon but it's honestly not a great fit for me #i really struggle with meditative prayers because of the way my mind works - i cannot for the life of me focus on it #there are other forms of prayer that are more fruitful for me and that's okay!! #this post is bc i've known ppl who have tried to have rosary devotions and felt like bad Catholics bc they struggled with it

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

#art #etching #engraving #meditation #religious art #franciscans #catholicism #skull #saint francis of assissi #francisco de zurbaran #alponse charles masson #st. francis in prayer 1849

[spiritualseeker777]

#spiritual awakening #spiritual awareness #wisdom #good advice #manifestation #meditation #gratitude #prayer

[lovilaa]

I find peace in the lord 💗✝️ Jesus loves you, come back to him 💓

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[fathernick]

#meditation #philosophy #spirituality #enlightenment #mindfulmeditation #mantra #advaita #illumination #mysticism #jesus christ #god #yahweh #father #gnostic christianity #orthodox christianity #christianity #catholic #prayer #unitarian #universalism

[forgotten-bharat]

Yajur Ved

#sanskrit mantra #hindublr #hinduism #sanatan dharma #bharat #india #yajur veda #meditation #spirituality #spiritual awakening #desiblr #ancient india #prayer #hindu culture #hindutva

[389]

Contemplative meditation house + prayer chamber Marwan Zgheib

#landscape #meditation #house #prayer #chamber #contemplative #Marwan Zgheib #u

[thurifer-at-heart]

Thomas Merton on "knowing God"

God is invisibly present to the ground of our being: our belief and love attain to him, but he remains hidden from the arrogant gaze of our investigating mind which seeks to capture him and secure permanent possession of him in an act of knowledge that gives power over him.

We know [God] in so far as we become aware of ourselves as known through and through by him. We "possess" him in proportion as we realize ourselves to be possessed by him in the inmost depths of our being. ... Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of the Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently "scientific" knowledge about God, but to come to know him through the realization that our very being is penetrated with his knowledge and love for us.

Our knowledge of God is paradoxically a knowledge not of him as the object of our scrutiny, but of ourselves as utterly dependent on his saving and merciful knowledge of us.

—Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer, p.61

#christian mysticism #christianity #God #thomas merton #contemplative prayer #prayer #christian meditation #quotes

[momentsbeforemass]

Intrusive thoughts

“What do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?”

This is the heart of a beautiful question I received from someone who’s thinking about becoming Christan. Specifically, a Catholic Christian. And they’re starting to pray the Rosary.

They’ve already figured out that the Rosary is meant to help you be present with God. It’s Christian meditation. To make a quiet place inside us to just be with God.

Something a lot of cradle Catholics don’t know.

They’re having problems with intrusive thoughts. It’s frustrating. It feels like the opposite of a quiet place to just be with God.

Something everyone of us who prays the Rosary knows all too well.

So what do you do about intrusive thoughts during prayer?

I don’t pretend to have all the answers. But I can tell you what I do. And it depends on the thought.

If it’s small potatoes. Something I just remembered. Or something I need to do. Or an email I need to return.

I just jot it down on my phone. Then I can let go of it. Because I know it won’t get lost.

What if it’s not small potatoes? What if it keeps coming back? What if it’s something I’m really wrestling with?

Maybe it’s a relationship that’s struggling or a health issue that’s getting worse. Maybe it’s a job search that’s gone cold or financial problems that keep growing. Or anything else that’s weighing on your heart.

Whatever it is, that’s what you need to be talking with God about.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, it creates a place for you to be with God – about what’s weighing on your heart?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Be with God, about what’s weighing on your heart.

If this time when you pray the Rosary, you never even finish the first decade – and the Lord’s Prayer trails off into pouring your heart out to God about the stone on your soul?

Then that is how you need to pray.

Pour your heart out to God about the stone on your soul.

If that is the Rosary that you need to pray in this moment, then that is how you should pray.

Whatever it is, share it with God. Let God be there for you.

Don’t waste your time trying to sort things out so you can have quiet time with God. Do it with God.

Pray as you are, not how you think you should be.

“We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” - C.S. Lewis

Today’s Readings

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[akkivee]

base meme would have suited fine but i think this was a bit more accurate LOL

#this is vee speaking #POPULAR WITH MEN KUUKOU 🙌 #THE GIRLIES THINK HES A FUNKY LITTLE GUY (SAFE) 🙌 #that ask i got about what makes kuukou attractive in that universe was so interesting i’m so serious lol #like!!!!! based on what hypmic presents us i’d say the ones popular with women are the ones who get girls screaming their names like idols #like ramuda hifumi and jyushi!!!!! and samatoki and ichiro that one time in tdd iirc!!!!!! #tdd manga also had girls fawning over nmcd so there is that in the camp kuukou does have appeal to girls in that sense #but it’s funny to me in canon we’ve seen kuukou flocked by men old people and children LOL #that reminds me of this one comic i read where bat were out in the town but jyushi and hitoya wanted to stop somewhere else i think #so kuukou waited for them outside and as he waited he slipped into meditation reciting buddhist prayers #when jyushi and hitoya came back they found him still chanting still in that deep state of mind #but passerbys had given him offerings and an old lady was praying to KUUKOU offering her thanks LOL #c: kuukou👑

[apenitentialprayer]

The Apparition of Our Lord to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque

Through this life of contemplation you [nuns] are the voice of the Church as She ceaselessly praises, thanks, implores, and intercedes for all mankind. Through your prayer, you are co-workers of God, helping the fallen members of His glorious Body rise again […] In this way, you have become an image of Christ who seeks to encounter the Father on the heights.

Pope Francis (Vultum Dei quaerere, §9)

#Christianity #Catholicism #nun #prayer #Imitatio Dei #Jesus Christ #Sacred Heart #saints #Margaret Mary Alacoque #Ecclesia #praying #meditation #God the Father #mysticism #My Pope #Vultum Dei quaerere

[lazyyogi]

The 3 Qualities of Authentic Spiritual Practice

A spiritual path and practice can take any number of forms. Just as there are many ways to climb a mountain. However, if you are actually climbing a mountain, then there are a few reliable things happening: you are going higher on the mountain, you are experiencing the change in perspective that comes with going up higher, and eventually you will reach the top.

Similarly, there are 3 qualities that mark authentic spiritual practice. 

They are:

Defragmentation of the mind and emotion. The passage of life inevitably puts us through a gamut of experiences. We respond to those differing experiences and challenges as best we can in those moments. Yet inevitably we wind up with fractured aspects of our psyche and emotions. Half-baked dreams and desires, cyclic thoughts, collected ill-defined self-images, a number of blind and sore spots, various triggers, and fragile barriers. Spiritual practice guides us toward an inner state of seamlessness and non-separation. Our inner field of awareness awakens and embraces every aspect of self until they are healed and then either integrated or released. 

Freedom of perception from filtration. The conditioned and "educated" mind perceives the world through many filters. We may view other beings in terms of gender, status, sexuality, nationality, and even other more subtle nuances. We may perceive the world as threatening or comforting, interesting or terrible. Instead of raw moment-to-moment perception, we have grown to rely on certain habitual ways of seeing and therefore thinking. Education is a fixed way of seeing and understanding whereas creativity is a form of spontaneous non-conditioned perception. A balance between the two is healthy and powerful, yet also something that is not taught and few rarely figure out on their own. Spiritual practice cleanses perception such that it is freed from the limits of our past. Then new insights become possible as well as fresh ways to live, love, and have fun.

Facilitation of genuine self-contact. Most of our day is spent either regarding the world around us or regarding ourselves as if we were an object in said world. There are few moments set aside for profoundly intimate self-contact, let alone living from our most intimate core of awareness. We overlook and even grow numb to the aspect of ourselves that is always there with us. You can see it in the restlessness, in the semi-conscious feeling of being incomplete that drives people to seek themselves in the world around them. It lends to the drive of our consumerist culture, the false belief that we can be fulfilled through acquiring the right things, experiences, or identities. Spiritual practice directs us to come into contact with the living aspect of our existence, the part of ourselves that is actually alive, without relying on any self-definitions or stories. The most living aspect of ourselves is also the most real--quite literally! You are the most real thing you have ever experienced, everything else you have experienced is secondary to your own body and consciousness. There is immense freedom in this realization.

I always encourage daily meditation because it serves all three of these functions at once. Other practices that also serve one or more of these functions are: prayer, journaling, gratitude lists, lucid dreaming, yoga/qigong/intentional movement, mindfulness, guided meditations, intentional art, pranayama, and laughter. 

Ponder what some daily spiritual practice might do for you. A little goes a long way, as it reverberates through every aspect of your life. 

LY

#spirituality #meditation #mindfulness #consciousness #awareness #health #wellness #religion #prayer #philosophy

[angeltreasure]

If you want to have a friendship with someone, you need to start a conversation and have exchange back and forth not just talking one-sided about yourself. The same goes for God. Feel like He’s far away or you can’t hear His voice? Prayer is key to having a personal relationship with God. He wants to hear from you because He loves you and desires you. Like a friend, make prayer a two way exchange. Listen with your heart and open yourself to Him.

#God #little meditations #Jesus #Holy Spirit #prayer #Christianity #Catholicism #Orthodox