Fr. Thomas Keating continues discussing the gift of “letting go” in Centering Prayer:
[In Centering Prayer, we] entrust ourselves and all our loved ones to God’s infinite mercy, with a firm confidence that perhaps [God] can handle everything in the world for twenty minutes without our help, or at least without the help of our thoughts… It’s our silence [emphasis added] that is the biggest help, because it enables us to receive the divine inflowing, which is what heals the world in the measure that we become a channel of that loving, divine, and extravagant love of God…
[Channeling God’s presence] is a capacity that everyone has in virtue of being a human being. It’s a gift, but a gift that has been given. It’s a question of our awakening to a presence, a source within us that is an inexhaustible well of nourishment, of peace, freedom, and joy, but which is hindered or prevented from being enjoyed fully by our habits of life and thought and behavior that introduce a dissonance in the marvelous spiritual vibrations of the Divine Word of God, by whom all things were made and which enlightens everyone coming into the world… This is not a prayer to nowhere, but a prayer to everywhere.
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