Here is a quote from myself on another forum and an answer to a question posed to me:
“Now, I have the rest of my life to live with the Cloud of Unknowing, The Cloud of Forgetting, and the Apophatic approach of allowing God to come to me through my own intent and surrender so that he might have an experience of me and the world I live in.”
To answer your question as to what I meant by “come to me through my own intent” is this:
Our intention is our free will in motion.
If I intend to open myself for God to be with me, then I am surrendering to the idea of God being with me, or in other words, I am creating space through my intention to allow God to enter it.
Mostly our intentions take us to any place other than being with God, and we are probably not used to consciously focusing our intentions.
The practice of Centering Prayer as presented by Fr. Thomas Keating uses the phrase: the “intent to consent”.
I hope that helps to answer your question or at least assists you in asking another!
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Intention and God’s experience of the World through us/me
Here is a quote from myself on another forum and an answer to a question posed to me:
To answer your question as to what I meant by “come to me through my own intent” is this:
Our intention is our free will in motion.
If I intend to open myself for God to be with me, then I am surrendering to the idea of God being with me, or in other words, I am creating space through my intention to allow God to enter it.
Mostly our intentions take us to any place other than being with God, and we are probably not used to consciously focusing our intentions.
The practice of Centering Prayer as presented by Fr. Thomas Keating uses the phrase: the “intent to consent”.
I hope that helps to answer your question or at least assists you in asking another!
Tags: free will, intent to consent, intention
This entry was posted on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 at 12:38 pm and is filed under Cloud of Unknowing - General comments. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.