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"At all times, but especially in the beginning, we need to find a specific time and place to nurture silence." (Inward Simplicity: The Divine Center, Part II Richard J. Foster)

"Contemplative Prayer immerses us into the silence of God. How desperately we in the modern world need this wordless baptism!…Progress in intimacy with God means progress toward silence." (Prayer: Finding the Heart's True Home, p. 155)  

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 "The wonderful thing about contemplative prayer is that it can be found everywhere, anywhere, anytime for anyone."—from the Be Still DVD


"[W]e began experiencing that "sweet sinking into Deity" Madame Guyon speaks of. It, very honestly, had much the same "feel" and "smell" as the experiences I had been reading about in the Devotional Masters" (from Renovare Perspective.01/ 1998)

"What an inviting picture of movement and work in harmony with the divine Center of the universe"( Inward Simplicity: The Divine Center,)

"Can we live in virtually constant communion with the divine Center of the universe?"( Inward Simplicity: The Divine Center)

"Simplicity, then, is getting in touch with the divine center" (Simplicity)

"Thomas Merton has perhaps done more than any other twentieth-century figure to make the life of prayer widely known and understood ... his interest in contemplation led him to investigate prayer forms in Eastern religion ...[he is] a gifted teacher ..." (Spiritual Classics - p.17)

"Dom John Main understood well the value of both silence and solitude ...Main rediscovered meditation while living in the Far East." (Spiritual Classics - p.155)

 

 

 
 
 

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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness (the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom," "spiritual disciplines," and many others.

Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement.