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Prayer 04: Being With God

Rule of Life

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Mindfulness

The common story on mindfulness is that it started with Buddhist meditation and then it was kind of co-opted and secularized by Western psychologists. The oldest form of the Christian faith is called Eastern Orthodoxy, capital O. And the Eastern stream of the church in particular has a two millennia old tradition of contemplative prayer going all the way back to desert fathers and mothers.

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