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Memories of Thomas Keating and his Involvement with 12-Step Recovery & Centering Prayer

Fr. Matthew Flatley describes his two years of life at a monastery with Fr. Thomas Keating and the people and events that got Fr. Thomas involved with the 12-step program. A Q&A and comment session follows his remarks. For more from Fr. Matt on spiritual sobriety with Centering Prayer as the 11th step, go to    • Spiritual Sobriety with Centering Pra...  . For all talks from this 2024 conference titled "Living into the Inspiring Legacy of Thomas Keating," go to    • 40 Years: Edited 2024 CO Conference V...  . This conference was co-sponsored by 12 Step Outreach and Contemplative Outreach. For more on the use of Centering Prayer in a 12-step program, visit 12 Step Outreach at https://cp12stepoutreach.org/. For resources and support in the Centering Prayer practice in general, visit Contemplative Outreach at http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org. Jim "Hound Dog" Davis recalled that when he was in Folsom Prison in 1999 Fr. Thomas visited. For more see    • True Freedom:  Prisoners Speak Out  . Below is Fr. Matt's collection of wisdom sayings, one of the handouts that he referred to: Centering Prayer as Divine Therapy: A spiritual discipline, which initiates a healing journey in body, mind and spirt - a sobriety, which is physical, emotional and spiritual. • The wound is the place where the light enters you. Rumi • First there is the fall, and then we recover from the fall, both are the mercy of God. Julian of Norwich • To see what is right in front of your nose, takes a constant effort. George Orwell • The issues are in the tissues. Joelle M • “I need to know what my deepest desire is ... what is God’s will for me?” “Matthew, they are one and the same.” Abbot Joseph Boyle • A “miracle” is only a change in perception. Fr. Matt • Mystery does not mean that we cannot understand something, it means there is no end to the understanding. Richard Rohr • You try and you try and you fail. And then you go deeper. Shunryu Suzuki • Try less surrender more. Thomas Keating • 1 Sit is Devotional. 2 Sits are Transformational. Contemplative Outreach Wisdom • Find your practice and practice it ... Find your teaching and follow it ... Find your community and enter it. James Finley • Our defects may be our greatest gifts ... if we surrender them to God. Fr. Matt • Jesus said, “Your faith has saved you.” Faith in What? Faith in His love. That is what saved her. TK • “Grace fills empty spaces ... but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself, which makes this void.” Simone Weil • He who binds himself to a joy does the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity’s sunrise. William Blake • “It's good to be a SEEKER, but sooner or later You have to be a FINDER. And then it is well to give what You have found, a gift into the world for whoever will accept it.” Jonathan Livingston Seagull • "Our attention is a commodity. If we are not intentional, we will hand over our power to whatever is loudest. Nothing is left for the softest voices." Andy Willis Patient Trust: Above all, trust in the slow work of God. We are quite naturally impatient in everything to reach the end without delay. We would like to skip the intermediate stages. We are impatient of being on the way to something unknown, something new. And yet, it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability ... and that it may take a very long time. And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually - let them grow; let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time, (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming in you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that his hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ