4+R's+of+Centering+Prayer

=**From Thomas Keating:**=


 * 1) =**Resist No Thought**=
 * 2) =**Retain No Thought**=
 * 3) =**React to No Thought**=
 * 4) =**Return Ever-So-Gently to the Sacred Word**=

in The Diversity of Centering Prayer, Cynthia Bourgeault's "Centering Prayer as Radical Consent". Pg 42.

===“The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alteration of old beliefs.” ===  //John Dewey, American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer//