Father Thomas Keating

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 of 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.