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“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.”

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Thomas Keating

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“The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.”

“To see everything in God and to see God in everything normally takes a lifetime of practice.”

Practice Lifetime

Author:Thomas Keating

“By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.”

Mean Spiritual Spirit Term Tradition Various Dialogue Really Mean

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“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.”

Important Different Christianity Example Buddhism Tradition Emptiness Shade Important Words

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“Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.”

People Mean Particular Findings Tradition Insight

Author:Thomas Keating

“I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.”

People Men World Mean Whole Government Can Do Building Concerned Tools Instruments

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“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.”

Seems Wanted Fall Process Falling In Love Obstacles God Love

Author:Thomas Keating

“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.”

Years Book Healing Divine Concern Extraordinary Therapy Consideration Experiencing God

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“God seems willing to act as the most sublime psychologist, psychotherapist, or even psychiatrist if we are willing.”

Ifs Seems Willing Sublime Psychiatrist Psychologist Psychotherapists

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“Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.”

Way Self Events Divine Degrees Majors Transformed Self Knowledge Interiors Breakthrough

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