God's Thoughts And Our Thoughts

While engaged in the practice of centering prayer, we begin to listen. But what is it that we are listening for? Father Thomas Keating explains, in this video clip, that we are listening for a presence beyond words that communicates with us. And as we sit and listen, our own stream of thoughts start to emerge. So how do we distinguish our thoughts from God’s thoughts within the silence of centering prayer? Through practice, experience, and experiment we can begin to hear the word-less call of God as we cultivate this second-person, Great-Thou relationship.