Living Ordinary Life with Extraordinary Love, by Thomas Keating

Fr. Thomas Keating and two other Trappists began the Centering Prayer movement in the 1970's to renew the Christian tradition of contemplation. Go to Contemplative Outreach which he co-founded, at www.contemplati..., for more information on Centering Prayer, including resources, retreats and local chapters that offer support to practitioners at all levels in the U.S. and around the world.
This talk was Fr. Keating's keynote address at the Contemplative Outreach Annual Conference Day of Enrichment October 2, 2004 in Toronto, Canada. The theme of the conference was "Finding Peace at the Center: A Contemplative Response." Until published here on TH-cam, this talk had been unavailable since the days of VHS videocassettes.
For all videos from this conference which included Sr. Mary Margaret Funk, go to • Living Ordinary Life w... .

[@paulaliberty2082]

This is one of those talks that you need to hear several times! Thank you Father Keating for all you continue to do to summon us to our roles in the body of Christ 🙏🕊💜

[@charlotteweaver-gelzer515]

Very grateful for this posting. Thank you.

[@SpiritDwellSacred]

His words of wisdom acts like a lighthouse, beckoning me to the path of God. So thankful for his ability to speak to the human condition.

[@johannadescenza9792]

I only wish I could thank you Father Keating...you are a wonder..May God Bless..

[@MelissaBishop-zk5bh]

What a sweetheart ❤

[@BeOutstanding]

Love your neighbor
We still have to protect ourselves from violence

[@monicaarcher7107]

At 27.10 he says our thoughts and feelings - at this point of human evolution - block our capacity to experience God. Yet Jesus appears to have been a very emotional person and very capable of using words powerfully. So if we persevere in contemplative practice maybe we experience feelings and thoughts differently. Fr Keating has developed a lovely capacity to speak, communicate. Hope I meet him in spirit eventually.

[@glenyscallaghan1195]

Amazing talk . Love love love it

[@intheone1]

What a gift 🙂

[@MrDavidSalamon]

Thank you, thank you for your identification of the talk given by Fr. Thomas! Who ever the person is--- thank you again! I has suggested this be done retroactively for all the video expositions that are on TH-cam. It would be wonderful if someone could do bv this for all videos on Coutreach channel. The year, location and purpose behind the.conference is of specific interest for those pursuing his teaching... for comparison and Observation of growth.

[@juampitrento]

companionship with neighbors is greatly effective with a tool developed by Eugene Gendlin called Focusing. This guy is lovely, he has common sense an uncommon gift

[@Andrew-yw6kt]

How does Gendlin's Focusing differ from CP?

[@juampitrento]

@@Andrew-yw6kt Contemplative Prayer, Centering prayer. Lovely attention, being present with whatever is here with me inside. Once I am aware of the thought, I just say to "it" with acceptance and Love "you can be here and I am now with Him who lives in me, later you can call my attention ". Later could be a Focusing session with someone else or an autofocusing encounter with myself

[@Andrew-yw6kt]

@@juampitrento thank you very much !
I'm trying to learn both focusing and CP...

[@terencewinters2154]

When up can be down; as in the case of technological barbarism. Even self defense becomes a slippery slope and a paradox in war . Far better to pursue the corporal works of mercy which uplift the human condition than an eternal war footing. So it's often a case of attitude. Forgiveness is a form of ❤ 😍. To err is human to forgive is to be in companionship with God.

[@crossbuckfarm1365]

What book does he note in the beginning about the meaning of war? Anybody know? Was it -War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning- by Chris Hedges?

[@graphguy]

Did I just hear him right?
He believes in evolution???????????????????????????

[@Ensign_Smith]

He's Catholic. Not all Christians are literalists regarding evolution. Origen, Augustine and many early Christians didn't take Genesis as "history" in the modern empirical sense of the word.

[@clymelabox2559]

That is not a problem with a wide enough understanding of scripture and prayer.

[@moonman5543]

Science has disproved a 6000 year old earth. This FACT forces you to either change your interpretation of the creative narrative or believe in a false interpretation of it.

[@sevenswords8781]

@@moonman5543 which science is that? I don't know of any proof in fact science has proven the myth of evolution to be wrong. facts...

[@John-iq2zt]

Macro evolution (the transformation of a substantial form into another) doesn’t make sense on a metaphysical level.