The House of God, The Womb of God - Thomas Keating

[@InChrist777]

Thomas Keating Rocks!!!

[@carlosjavieruhlmann]

As Father Thomas writes: "Each of us has a certain capacity to manifest the presence of God, Divine life, within us and in all creation, through love" He not only lived in that presence but manifest it. He was, what Buddhism calls, a Bodhisattva, an enlightened being (he would say that we are all enlightened). To be in his presence was to experience the boundless love and compassion he exuded, to be in the arms of that mother we read about on Isaiah 45:15. To me, he was truly a father, but not just the appellative some use when addressing a catholic priest. When we called him "Father" There was a transmission, a sharing, of true LOVE, which words can't express. To me, he gave me what no earthly father can give, that peace that John 14:27 talks about, which is Christ's gift to us. I was blessed to be with him during many retreats and at St. Benedict monastery. During the first retreat at Lama in Taos, New Mexico and later, at the Assembly of the World's Religions. It would be meaningless for me to say "may he rest in peace" for not only did he dwell in that peace during his life, but showed us the way to find it.

[@mirakor1]

Thank you, Father. May you rest in peace.

[@rubymeagher1005]

How I miss his just being on this earth !

[@maryroot2599]

yes.

[@henripepels815]

I've come a long way. Through presocratics, neoplatonism, daoism, buddhism and Hindi wisdom of several denominations, sufi and christian mystics and recently the Gospel of Thomas, to find all of this reformulated again and again in Thomas Keatings unique voice. We all have our addiction, and I'm starting to get addicted to this voice. If (and only if) his is Christianity, I no longer resist calling myself a christian. No-thingness is at the very center, at the very heart of it. It is as simple as it can get. A rocky road though. In another talk he tells us about the 'fall into the hands of God'. That is to say, a surrender to this no-thingness, which is, in a somewhat dispassionate formula, a transformation into a nondualist or divine perspective on world, yourself and their relationship. Original sin is nothing but a falling out of the hands of God, that is to say, falling into dualism. Our purpose is to find our way back into the divine. Father Keating is a great help for me to cultivate patience.

[@josephgiambona1668]

Such wisdom is divine! Be one in the spirit.So glad to have found your teachings at this point in my evolution. Rest In Peace and be one with Him🙏🏻

[@BobBKooenabio]

Thank you once again Fr. Thomas; you certainly have made my life so fulfilling. Veronica OCDS R. I.

[@ャンティオカ]

I always said that people can be really close to God in his all-loving aspect. Love everyone as Jesus loved you. Love everyone and everything. Be like God.

[@juliesheard2122]

Converting matter into Divine Love!!!! Love as the raw material of the universe. Oh Fr Thomas, your wisdom is beyond price. Thankyou. 💕

[@federicoramirez8175]

What Father Thomas explains at 17:25 is so true! What a wise human being. I wish I had met him. His videos have been such a source of guidance for me. Thank you for posting! 🙏

[@Art2GoCanada]

Thanks for the highlight 17:25

[@federicoramirez8175]

@@Art2GoCanada You're very welcome!🙂

[@janethomas9947]

Lovely memory of Fr Thomas - thank you

[@rickmcentee9204]

Nice distinction between aceticism and detachment. God reveals self through a cozy home you worked to own and a perfectly cooked ribeye steak.

[@rul4522]

Soft and acceptance. Beautiful.

[@lynnwalker4417]

Thank you so much, I feel that Our Lord has showered me with the most amazing gifts in your words 🙏🏼

[@faaalulevaafaletoeseiuli4633]

2023 and still Father Thomas reminds us from beyond of who what God is in just “being”

[@johannadescenza9792]

Father..Your Spiritual Wisdom is ever so enticing ..I'd like to continue on getting to know you and your writings..it has been so wonderful Father..May God Bless..Amen

[@laidir1000]

The womb (or uterus) as a gynaecological Garden of Eden is persuasive. Even Freud in his atheism acknowledged "the oceanic oneness" of the child in the placenta/amniotic fluid in the mother's womb, separate yet one.

[@Jyoti3836]

Thank you! Profound insight.

[@damo780]

Superb words of modern spiritual wisdom 🙏

[@BobBKooenabio]

As I might have made this comment before; l live close to the Monastery in Rhode Island , near the Nun's Monastery " Trappist in Cumberland. If anyone is blessed to go to Spencer where Fr. Keaton was Abbot; it is certainly worth the trip. The Trappist jam was made by Brother Berk who was also at Spencer . The library where books are sold is really great. I guess l have said enough. Veronica OCDS R. I.

[@debtickner]

This is the most lovely video and seems to lovingly bring so many things together into the Whole. 🙏🏻❤️

[@annettedonnelly5359]

Thank you ❤️

[@timfogarty6637]

Namaste

[@courtneybrubaker9738]

The womb of God is feminine. Why is there not more talk of the feminine nature of God?

[@shauntewary844]

❤

[@devoradamaris]

🕯

[@timfogarty6637]

🙏🏾

[@HNCS2006]

11:41

[@toriajustice605]

🤍🙏🏻

[@toddroberson9316]

pքɾօʍօʂʍ

[@beverleycoghlan7868]

This is total waffle and rubbish. Where is Jesus in all of this?

[@beatrizcristinagil5273]

In the admission of powerlessness and letting go of the false self.

[@onenessbe9991]

Beverly do you feel that Jesus is encouraging us toward His Father ? I do . Making ourselves available to God is surely Jesus mission ? He did say : " It is not I that do these things but the Father in me does them .." . Fr.Thomas certainly encourages me towards Jesus , as he sheds light on the fact that we have to cooperate in the union . When he relates the words of Jesus to " Enter your closet to pray to the father ..." , it really rings true to me . He doesn't mean to climb into the cupboard but rather , to sit in our own consciousness without attempting to distract ourselves with anything outside of that .

[@conniedellinger4089]

Thank you 🙏

[@carmenparron1898]

💟

[@wyumda]

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