God is the unstoppable energy of all beings, a boundless source that cannot be slowed down or ultimately overcome.”
– Matthew Fox
Do you know that within you is a powerful source of energy?
This is one reason why I practice Centering Prayer everyday.
Deep within me is an energy that waits to be let loose and put to good use in this world.
My silent sit reconnects me to this energy.
My silent sit feeds me and nourishes my soul.
That is why I return to it each day.
It is so powerful that I return for a second sit each day too.
My silent sit helps me best identify how to channel this energy within me.
I seem to receive inner nudges during my sits.
These nudges tell me the actions I should take today and in the future.
How do you feed and nourish your soul?
How do you connect to this energy within?
Go Further:
Books by Matthew Fox
Naming the Unnameable: 89 Wonderful and Useful Names for God …Including the Unnameable God
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ: The Healing of Mother Earth and the Birth of a Global Renaissance
Christian Mystics: 365 Readings and Meditations
A Way to God: Thomas Merton’s Creation Spirituality Journey
Prayer: A Radical Response to Life
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Centering Prayer as a Way of Life by Contemplative Outreach, Pamela Begeman, Mary Anne Best, Julie Saad: In this, the third offering of this year’s trilogy on Centering Prayer, we will explore how the practice of Centering Prayer evolves into a surrendered life of inner peace and equanimity despite the busy and often tumultuous circumstances of daily life in the 21st century. As the inner room begins to expand its walls beyond the twice-daily practice of Centering Prayer, the Spirit takes over our life more and more, and we begin to accept ourselves just as we are, God as God is, and all reality as it is. From this disposition of true humility, enlarged under the influence of God’s grace, we live in the Kingdom of God here and now, which is a state of consciousness ever-attentive to the presence of God in the midst of ordinary life.
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