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#302 Can a Christian Meditate? - Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem.

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What's the Difference Between Meditation and Christianity?

i think that the interest in meditation is primarily in what are usually called, i guess, eastern forms of meditation. They were brought here a by ano harvard professors and the like in the sixties. What distinguishes this understanding of meditation from the christian understanding of meditation? We all have the same human nature with its faculties: intellect which can rest in possession of truth or seek it out among various goods proposed. So we have that those twoe might say, fields of activity. And then we have the whole, a universe, literally, a microcosm eflecting the microcosm of imagination, memory, which includes also our use of words, all sorts of things

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