I’m 81 and have been doing recovery work for 50 years now. This beautiful prayer touched my heart and brought tears to my eyes. It has been said it’s the journey, not the destination. One day at a time we journey thru this life and learn the lessons as we go. Always working to stay close to the source. It helps so much by prayers like these and reading all the wonderful comments.😇

If you want to be free, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room-the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you don’t run away. Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you. An enormous Intelligence is guiding us through this process with a love that is unconditional and determined to bring about this healing, whatever the cost to Itself. Gregory the Great expressed it as “resting in God". Don’t judge centering prayer on the basis of how many thoughts come or how much peace you enjoy. The deeper one's awareness of one's powerlessness and the more desperate, the more willing one is to reach out for help. This help is offered in the next two steps. You turn yourself over to a Higher Power who you believe can heal you and work with you in the long journey of dismantling the emotional programs for happiness. They are the root causes of all our problems How should we handle these afflictive emotions? By facing them, by feeling them. Feelings that have been repressed have to be allowed to pass through our awareness once again in order to be left behind for good. The radical healing is the acceptance of the situation, because in some way God is present there. The real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumption that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity. The false self is deeply entrenched. We have to accept the idea that the word "I" does not have a fixed and clear and obvious referent. This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination. The contemplative journey, because it involves the purification of the unconscious, is not a magic carpet to bliss. It is an exercise of letting go of the false self, a humbling process, because it is the only self we know. Nothing is more helpful to reduce pride than the actual experience of self-knowledge. If we are discouraged by it, we have misunderstood its meaning. God has not promised to take away our trials, but to help us to change our attitudes toward them. That is what holiness really is. 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 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. ~ Father Thomas Keating

My Life has been transformed through the attempt to be faithful to contemplative prayer. I turn 92 in August of this year. May all who listen to this recording be truly blessed and healed. With joy and gratitude.

Every Mystic…Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Sufi…all say the exact same thing. It’s so beautiful 😌

Overwhelmed with gratitude for this beautiful recording. I am 62 and have been on my spiritual journey since about 40. Each step of purification is so very painful, but takes me away from my small self and brings me closer and closer to my true Self. Of late, I have been shocked to discover that at my core, I am full of jealousy. It is so very shameful that I feel I can tell nobody about it. It is the single most humbling experience of my life as outwardly, everybody around me would say what a ‘nice’ person I was. They have no idea of the venom I feel inside. It has been unbearable, but this wonderful prayer/meditation with its ancient message of hope and transformation, has soothed my troubled mind. Thank you 🙏 Prayers, blessings and encouragement to all who choose to travel this difficult path ❤

When I first started following you, dear One, there were around 50,000 followers…in these months of listening and resting in this space with you, the sheep keep coming to rest in the shade. So many of us are “being surrendered” through every ripple of aliveness that arises within… I send you my gratitude and I thank you for making a place for such a nurturing surrender within ❤

Every line of this teaching is so powerful. Each line is a prayer, a mantra, a meditation. So much wisdom - so beautifully spoken. Thank you.

Resting in God. Such exquisiteness this centering prayer. Please know you bring such peace through the universe with your teachings. With deep love.😘😘😘

This was beautiful. Fr. Keating was a true mystic.

I've just discovered this beautiful meditation, and am giving thanks to the late Fr Thomas Keating for his Centering Prayer teachings, which brought me into the spiritual path 4 years ago. His idea of Divine Therapy has helped me to discover my true Self, learn to love myself again, ditch guilt and negativity - and above all, to TRUST! Thank you!

A balm to our souls hearing these words. Thank you Sister.

Thank you. I am a devoted student of Fr. Thomas’ centering prayer practice. I belong to Contemplative Outreach, the organization he founded. However, I am inclined towards the teachers, like Lillian DeWaters (of whom I learned here on this channel) and the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta , which claim that we are already divine perfection, and we simply have to realize it, rather than “transform” into it or toward it. But I also must admit I have been transforming bit by bit in the spiritual practices- especially centering prayer and service to others. I am grateful for this.

This clip really cracked my heart ! Endless gratitude for the beautiful teachings of Father Thomas Keating, and the unique, devine voice of our beloved Samaneri Jayasara ❤️💖💛💗🙏🙏🙏

Unmistakably Advita. Proof once again that all the great religions are pointing to the very same reality. Thank you, Sister. Gassho 🙏🏼

For some reason, I listened to this immediately & can already feel its transformative power. Thank you for such thoughtfulness ~ and your uncanny timing, Sister. From the heart ❤

Deep gratitude for this and all of your uploads, Samaneri. ❤ Your measured, calming voice is rooted in spirit and facilitates deep healing. Of all days, I really needed this teaching/pointer. I'm 65 years old with probably 35 years of so-called personal growth behind me. The journey has been a long one and with so many powerful references points/experiences of transformation, I am still trying to break a lifelong need for other-validation. Liquidating the LACK has been the greatest challenge. The Obstacle is the Way! I have much less of that need to prove my worth now, yet one stubborn program has been the hardest to break: the seemingly unstoppable "do-do." It's so strange- this inability to stop and Be Here Now. I understand how important it is and I can quote many great lines from poems and philosophers that point to the necessity for contemplative prayer if one wants to experience peace. So here I am once again sitting quietly by Cup & Saucer Creek working to assimilate the pointers. 🙏🏽

Recently been diagnosed with MS. My research into meditation has brought me to centering prayer. I wanted an alternative to meditation to help calm my heart, mind and body each day. Including centering prayer, medication, exercise, diet and supplements I believe I can either beat this disease or at least hold it at bay. Calming myself is the first step in all this.

The sages point to reality regardless of tradition and the pointing to THAT is rendered palpable in these beautiful offerings read with such a soothing and calm voice of Samaneri 🙏

“Through this goodness may awakening spontaneously arise in our streams of being. May all obscurations and distortions fall away. May all beings be liberated from suffering, and the stormy waves of birth, sickness, old age, and death. By this merit may all attain omniscience. May it defeat the enemy, wrong-doing. From the stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness, and death, from the ocean of samsara, may Jayasara free all beings.” ❤🙏

Only in surrENDer Iam free 💜🙏💜

Thanks Sweetheart.....🥰😘👌

I was thunderstruck listening to this reading Jayasara.. A moment of clarity of its truth and love. The “enormous intelligence guiding…” 🕊️❤️⭕️🙏🏻

A mystic within the Church, what a rare jewel where it should be the norm. He's clear.

I absolutely love Jayasara..I've been to several Theravada meditation retreats..I sleep all night listening to her divine voice❤️

Thank you.

Thank you so much for this. I find it compelling. Never have I listened to something over and over like I have this. Beautiful tears. (:

thank you 💐 your choice of music is beautiful

Powerful, beautiful, peaceful, life-changing-a gift to us all, with love. I am grateful. Thank you.

Love and believe in centering prayer. First I did it was with the Dominican sisters many years ago. Thomas Merton took up this prayer again God bless him and Fr Thomas Keating. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Thank you so much , this I needed to hear at this time. ❤

Highest most refined truth. Nothing but truth

So exquisite it just took me to my depths. I feel more gratitude every day for your Divine offerings that bring such peace and joy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❤❤❤

So Soulful. So Beautiful ❤

I’ve been here listening to you a long time Jayasara but I haven’t left word of my gratitude in quite as long. I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your beautiful offerings, they mean so much to me 🙏🏼💖

I personally knew Fr Keating. His book “Open Mind, Open Heart” was a life changer for me. 😃🌻🙏❤️

Keating, Merton, Nouwen, Rohr, all great Catholic writers and mystics, (can't remember if Nouwen would be considered a mystic),that really introduced me to the Eastern philosophies back in my early twenties. It's beautiful that it's just one thing, one view, one meditation, love it

May this merit have some benefit for sentient beings.

“Dismantling the emotional programs”. In the midst of this and am thankful for this guidance.❤

I belong to a Monastic community in Rhode Island; Centering Prayer is God's gift to the world. Veronica OCDS. R. I.

Thank you dear Jayasara 🙏🏽 This one is really so beautiful & perfect ❤️ Many blessings to you ✨

Brilliant. The humbling process of transformation to become fully human. ❤️🙏

That was so beautiful. The words that are in my heart say this, without saying anything. 🙏❤️‍🩹

your voice is so sublime and peaceful thank you

Thank U for the reassurance that I'm on the right path.

There is a mystery that cannot be articulated in words. The truth of that statement is familiar and grounding.

Thank you for sharing wisdom from the masters!! Thank you Master Jayasara ❤

This truly touched my heart. Thank you. 💖

Beautiful -stunning silence -healing-gratitude!

Thank you simply beautiful 🙏

Thank you!

I forgot to say thank you 🙏 for bringing Truth every day

Our God doesn’t need words, He wants your Heart💙

I ❤ this. So much here that I understand and feel but could not express.

Fell asleep to this last night as I have often done in over two years to your offerings everything you bring is everything everyone has already said…..thank you lovely Samaneri Jayasara…🙏🏼🌻

This meditation is a profound gift to me and I’m guessing to many who have the time and presence of mind to really hear. Deep gratitude for these beautiful, inspiring recitations! ❤️🙏🏼🕊

Thank you

Gorgeous .Thanks.

Father Keating was an early inspiration for me, one of many messengers of truth in my heart. Glad to see his words of truth here. Now let me get back to silence.

That is one of the most beautiful things I have listened from your amazing work ❤

Beautiful 🙏

Bless your heart for reading all these sacred texts for the world!!!!! Thank you angel!

Thank you!!!😊❤

I am in awe of this meditation and the writing. I have few words but to say thank you so very much. ❤

I discovered Father Keating and Centering Prayer and I love it. It’s very similar to how I think and how A Course in Miracles thinks 😊❤

This was so perfect for me today Thank you so so much ❤ I will be listening to this a lot Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for this journey ❤️ it made me weep like a willow and sob and snivel

Recently diagnosed with MS and what I have found are other people who suffer from it do meditation but I want something different and upholds my faith. Centering Prayer seems to be the answer.

This is wonderful

Thankyou for these beautiful pointings ❤

Today I was lead to you. Peace be upon you!

Beautiful. Exactly what I needed.

Beautiful. Thank you. Tears of gratitude. ❤🙏

Thank you Samaneri, your words mean a lot to me. Gratitude amidst the tears.

Beautiful. Thank you.

Awesome teachings here 🙏, there is no religion higher than truth. ❤

Thankyou 🙏🏽

Wonderful & Soothing🙏🏽

Beautiful. Praise God

Great content. So contemporary. So encouraging.

Such a blessing 🙏 Thank you, eternally ♥️

Thank you for this divine gift !!❤

Thank you for these videos.I Appreciate your voice like a healing frequency

So Love-ly 💚 Thank you.

Excellent !

I love this channel ❤❤🙏

Voice sounds like hearing the mother of Jesus mary m i love it i am so grateful to her ❤ she is devine in us i totally agree thank you beautiful ❤ 17:48

I am deeply gratful for 5his beautiful piece. I will choose to fall asleep with it every night. Thank you.❤❤❤

So peaceful and pure!

Thank you divine

Th a nk you for so much 💜💮🙏 love 🎉

I love the peace!✌ ❤

true follower of Jesus teachings a true christian and mystic not many christians left anymore :(

Thank you and much love

Thank you! 🙏

Absolutely breathtaking pointers

So beautiful! Thank you for this spiritual gem!

Thank you, Ma 💛

Thank you, thank you, thank you ❤

Simply just This❤

Beautiful thank you ❤