Thomas Keating Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• The spiritual traditions of all the religions have certain similarities that are unmistakable. They share many of the same basic practices like sacred reading, spiritual guidance, moderation in eating, drinking and sexual expression, and above all, trying to be aware of the presence of God in other people and in everyday life.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Reading, Drinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• Finding out what particular insights mean to people in other traditions enables us not only to respect but to love the wisdom of other religions.

  Thomas Keating

  Mean, People, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• By deepening the spiritual dialogue between the spiritual traditions of the various religions in a spirit of friendship, one begins to understand just what the classical terms of the various spiritual traditions really mean.

  Thomas Keating

  Spiritual, Mean, Tradition

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The word "emptiness" for example, is a very important word both in Christianity and in Buddhism. It has shades of meaning however, that are different in the respective traditions.

  Thomas Keating

  Buddhism, Important, Different

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

• The whole immigration issue suggests the inevitability of people in our time seeking economic security that they can't find at home, which usually involves bringing their religion with them. One's children are going to be married to people outside their religious traditions as well as inside.

  Thomas Keating

  Religious, Children, Home

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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