The legacy of Father Thomas Keating, former abbot and brother at the Snowmass Benedictine Monastery, will be honored and celebrated this weekend by some of the foremost meditation practitioners in the ...

Keating wrote more than 30 books in his life, many available at Explore Booksellers in Aspen. When he died a year ago, at age 95, Father Thomas Keating was remembered around the world as a trailblazer ...

Although nominally a non-denominational Christian church, the Aspen Chapel echoed last Sunday morning with the sounds of some decidedly non-Christian chanting. “Innal insana lafi khusr illal ladhina ...

WASHINGTON — What is the Spirit doing now? This question frames the “New Contemplative Leaders Exchange,” a gathering of 19 young contemplative leaders with Thomas Keating, Tilden Edwards, Richard ...

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. The dirt lane leading to St. Benedict’s Monastery near Snowmass is about a mile long, giving approaching ...

Vaughan and Suzanne Counts set aside 20 minutes every morning and 20 minutes every evening to be silent and know God. In those periods of stillness and silence, they quiet their minds while slowly ...

The goal of centering prayer, a form of silent meditation, is to quiet the mind and body. The meditator focuses on a word, like “Jesus.” Each time the mind wanders, the meditator silently repeats the ...