If you want to be free, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room—the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you don’t run away. Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you.

An enormous Intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself.

Gregory the Great expressed it as “resting in God".

Don’t judge centering prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy.

The deeper one's awareness of one's powerlessness and the more desperate, the more willing one is to reach out for help. This help is offered in the next two steps. You turn yourself over to a Higher Power who you believe can heal you and work with you in the long journey of dismantling the emotional programs for happiness. They are the root causes of all our problems

How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them.

Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good.

The radical healing is the acceptance of the situation, because in some way God is present there.

The real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumption that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity. The false self is deeply entrenched.

We have to accept the idea that the word "I" does not have a fixed and clear and obvious referent. This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination.

The contemplative journey, because it involves the purification of the unconscious, is not a magic carpet to bliss. It is an exercise of letting go of the false self, a humbling process, because it is the only self we know.

Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning.

God has not promised to take away our trials, but to help us to change our attitudes toward them. That is what holiness really is. In this life, happiness is rooted in our basic attitude toward reality.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human, is to become fully divine.

The Spirit calls us to transformation of our inmost being, and indeed of all our faculties, into the divine way of being and acting.

Divine love picks us up when we sincerely believe nobody else will. We then begin to experience freedom, peace, calm, equanimity, and liberation from cravings

A total surrender of ourselves to the spiritual journey is required

When the presence of God emerges from our inmost being into our faculties, whether we walk down the street or drink a cup of soup, divine life is pouring into the world.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of this Divine life in us.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

To live in the presence of God on a continuous basis can become a kind of fourth dimension to our three-dimensional world, forming an invisible but real background to everything that we do or that happens in our lives.

Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation.

Whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it can only be a pointer toward the Mystery that can never be articulated in words. All that words can do is point in the direction of the Mystery.

Let Love Alone speak.

~ Father Thomas Keating

I’m 81 and have been doing recovery work for 50 years now. This beautiful prayer touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes. It has been said it’s the journey, not the destination. One day at a time we journey thru this life and learn the lessons as we go. Always working to stay close to the source. It helps so much by prayers like these and reading all the wonderful comments.😇

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Life has been transformed through the attempt to be faithful to contemplative prayer. I turn 92 in August of this year. May all who listen to this recording be truly blessed and healed.  With joy and gratitude.

Every Mystic…Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi…all say the exact same thing. It’s so beautiful 😌

The narrators voice and her attention to distinctive pauses make these prayers so utterly impacting. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

It is difficult to live a spiritual life in a materialistic world. However, finding this channel and meditating to it most mornings has helped me with the presence of God in my life so much. Thank you.

Every line of this teaching is so powerful. Each line is a prayer, a mantra, a meditation. So much wisdom - so beautifully spoken. Thank you.

When I first started following you, dear One, there were around 50,000 followers…in these months of listening and resting in this space with you, the sheep keep coming to rest in the shade.

So many of us are “being surrendered” through every ripple of aliveness that arises within…

I send you my gratitude and I thank you for making a place for such a nurturing surrender within ❤

A balm to our souls hearing these words.  Thank you Sister.

These bring great peace and joy. Thank you.

Resting in God.  Such exquisiteness this centering prayer.  Please know you bring such peace through the universe with your  teachings.  With deep  love.😘😘😘

This was beautiful. Fr. Keating was a true mystic.

I’ve listened to this specific one probably 40x. Life changing.

Overwhelmed with gratitude for this beautiful recording. I am 62 and have been on my spiritual journey since about 40. Each step of purification is so very painful, but takes me away from my small self and  brings me closer and closer to my true Self. Of late, I have been shocked to discover that at my core, I am full of jealousy. It is so very shameful that I feel I can tell nobody about it. It is the single most humbling experience of my life as outwardly, everybody around me would say what a ‘nice’ person I was. They have no idea of the venom I feel inside. It has been unbearable, but this wonderful prayer/meditation with its ancient message of hope and transformation, has soothed my troubled mind. Thank you 🙏 Prayers, blessings and encouragement to all who choose to travel this difficult path ❤

I've just discovered this beautiful meditation, and am giving thanks to the late Fr Thomas Keating for his Centering Prayer teachings, which brought me into the spiritual path 4 years ago. His idea of Divine Therapy has helped me to discover my true Self, learn to love myself again, ditch guilt and negativity - and above all, to TRUST!
Thank you!

Never heard of this person...but am so grateful to be  brushed with his presence this morning...
Thank you Jayasara for sharing this love and intelligence from this teacher with such peace and love...
So much love and gratitude for all these higher beings..
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The sages point to reality regardless of tradition and the pointing to THAT is rendered palpable in these beautiful offerings read with such a soothing and calm voice of Samaneri 🙏

This morning, I felt a resistance to entering my usual meditation practice.  But found myself drawn to this posted by you beloved Sister and I entered my inner room.  And Divine Therapy did take place.  And now.  Today.  The thought of the day ahead is not so daunting.  I am so thankful.  Deep Bow.

Recently been diagnosed with MS. My research into meditation has brought me to centering prayer. I wanted an alternative to meditation to help calm my heart, mind and body each day. Including centering prayer, medication, exercise, diet and supplements I believe I can either beat this disease or at least hold it at bay. Calming myself is the first step in all this.

I absolutely love Jayasara..I've been to several Theravada meditation retreats..I sleep all night listening to her divine voice❤️