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Rich Lewis is an author, speaker and coach focusing on Centering Prayer as a means of inner transformation. He teaches Centering Prayer in both his local and virtual community and offers One on One Coaching. He publishes a weekly meditation, book reviews and interviews on his site, Silence Teaches.

He has published articles for a number of organizations including Contemplative Light, Abbey of the Arts , Contemplative Outreach , EerdWord , In Search of a New Eden the Ordinary Mystic at Patheos and The Contemplative Writer.

Rich has been a daily practitioner of Centering Prayer since June 1, 2014. Centering Prayer has been so life giving and life changing that he feels compelled to share his journey with others who wish to learn more. Rich re ...more

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“We need to let God be in charge. We need to trust that God knows what is best. God is in the silence. He loves us beyond what we can comprehend.”
― Rich Lewis, Sitting with God: A Journey to Your True Self Through Centering Prayer

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“I am always connected to God. I cannot disconnect, even if I try. God’s presence always remains. Only my own awareness of God’s presence comes and goes, depending on the quality of my contemplation.”
― Rich Lewis, Sitting with God: A Journey to Your True Self Through Centering Prayer

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“The Alexandrian Mystics taught that Jesus’ divinity with a capital D and his humanity with a lower case h are always in dynamic tension and can never be separated.”
― Amos Smith

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“The spirit of the Gospels is the all inclusive love of Jesus, which jumps off the pages.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

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“To this day the Oriental Orthodox Church asserts that after the incarnation Jesus was “one united dynamic nature”: “at once God and human . . .” Ultimately, a Divine mystery—a paradox.”
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“We need precise words for Jesus. Otherwise, Christian theology is built on a foundation of sand.”
― Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity's Mystic Roots

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“When it comes to his Divinity, Jesus is equal with God. When it comes to his humanity, Jesus is subordinate to God.”
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