Founded in 2005 at Georgetown University, we practice meditation and inter-religious dialogue. Join us daily at 12:30pm and 6pm! Beginners encouraged.
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Joined November 2016
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@JohnMainCenter is a place of silence and solitude in the midst of a bustling @Georgetown community. Come share in the beauty of our space.
FACES OF @JohnMainCenter, VOL. 1
“Mediation has has made me a better listener and more present in conversations...you have so much baggage and so much going on...meditation takes that weight off.”
~ Kevin Chen #meditation #johnmain #georgetownuniversity
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“Meditation is perfect stillness of body and spirit. In that stillness we open our hearts to the eternal silence of God, to be swept out of ourselves, beyond ourselves, by the power of that silence.”
-John Main
“Meditation is practiced in solitude but it is the great way to learn to be in relationship.”
-John Main
“Every time we sit down to meditate we die to self and we rise beyond our own limitations to new life in God.”
-John Main
“Meditation is openness to a reality that we can only discover and only encounter in the depths of our own being. So we have to learn to be silent and to be profoundly silent.”
-John Main
“Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.”
-John Main
“To meditate means to live out of the centre of our being, that profound centre we find when we determine not to be shallow, not to be content to rest on the surface but to live out of the depths of our being.”
-John Main
“We are open to the Spirit who is creative love, present in the depths of our own spirit.”
-John Main
“ You have to take it on faith when you begin to meditate. Nothing that anyone can say will be very significant for you in comparison with the persuasive power of your own experience. “
-John Main
“All is trivial compared with the knowledge of the Spirit dwelling within us that arises when we turn our minds aside from what is temporal and passing and instead open our heart to what is enduring: God and God’s love for each of us.”
-John Main
"We must root ourselves not in self-love but in universal love. We become persons, not for ourselves, but for others, for all, for the all."
-John Main
A Peaceful Revolution
The 35th John Main Seminar: A Contemplative Response to the Crisis of Change.
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“In the practice itself you will find the powers of gentleness, forgiveness and compassion. “
-John Main
“At the moment of meditation you are not concerned about what you will do; you are wholly concerned about being.”
-John Main
“By meditating we leave behind the passing, ephemeral things of life and enter into what is eternal.”
-John Main
“Each occasion we sit down to meditate, everything we have done until that moment, including everything we have been until that moment, is simply abandoned.”
-John Main
“We come to see that God is love and, in a true sense, meditating is simply uncovering the love that is God in our own hearts.”
-John Main
