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James Finley’s Followers (79)
James Finley
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Merton's Palace of Nowhere
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1977
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21 editions
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Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
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2003
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15 editions
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The Healing Path: A Memoir and an Invitation
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Meister Eckhart's Living Wisdom: Indestructible Joy and the Path of Letting Go
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2014
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3 editions
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The Contemplative Heart
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1999
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5 editions
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Meditation for Christians: Entering the Mind of Christ
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2003
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5 editions
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The Beginner's Guide to Contemplative Prayer
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2002
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The Awakening Call: Fostering Intimacy With God
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1984
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5 editions
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Christian Morality and You by James Finley
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1976
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3 editions
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JESUS AND BUDDHA - Paths to Awakening
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“How strange God's ways are! He calls us to a union we do not understand. He calls us to a place of encounter which we cannot find. We search and search. Our silence reveals to us not a garden of delights but an awful nothingness. God leaves us in an awful emptiness. All our initial enthusiastic notions of prayer deteriorate into an acknowledgement of our utter superficiality and lack of authenticity before God. We can only throw ourselves completely on his mercy. We can only wait in the darkness and cry out for our salvation. We can but trust that God's love is such that our sinfulness does not even matter. We can only have faith.”
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
“We give God a name. We then equate God with the name we have given him, and in doing so we make ourselves, in effect, God’s God. Instead of acknowledging God as the source of our identity and existence, we make ourselves the self-proclaimed source of God’s identity. God then becomes the one made in our image and likeness.
Those engaged in the undertaking of naming God see themselves as participating in a holy work. They are the God-definers, the definition makers.”
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
Those engaged in the undertaking of naming God see themselves as participating in a holy work. They are the God-definers, the definition makers.”
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
“This disappearance, this annihilation is all a matter of appearances as seen through the eyes of the false self. The annihilation is only apparent, for the self being annihilated is itself only apparent. It is a self without God, that is, a self that can never exist. What is annihilated is our false self, our external self made absolute, the imposter, the mask (persona), the liar we think we are but are not. The annihilation therefore is not annihilation at all, for nothing real or genuine is annihilated. Rather, what is genuine is affirmed as our psychological, historical, social self and placed in its true relationship to God. All that is annihilated is the illusion of the self that cannot bear God's presence, save as an idol fabricated for the ego's own glorification. It is this "self" that is "annihilated" through God's merciful love. The annihilation is merciful for it, in fact, is the antithesis of annihilation. It is rather an obscure, inexplicable foretaste in faith of our final consummation as created persons. It is the mystery of the cross creatively at work in the foundations of consciousness, recreating our awareness that we might know God as he knows himself.”
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
― Merton's Palace of Nowhere
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