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Leloup, Jean-Yves

 
9780852445372: Being Still: Reflections on an Ancient Mystical Tradition
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0852445377 ISBN 13 : 9780852445372
Editeur : Gracewing, 2002

Synopsis

For more than fifteen hundred years Christianity has cultivated a rich and varied teaching on the practice of stillness and inner calm. Here we can find answers to the contemporary psychological struggle for inner peace.

In a fresh and engaging reading of this contemplative path, Jean-Yves Leloup explores the writings of many spiritual masters from across the centuries, in particular the Desert Fathers, the fourth-century monk Evagrius, St John Cassian, and the anonymous nineteenth-century author of The Way of the Pilgrim.

Drawn from the experience of the monasteries of Sinai and Mount Athos, here is a clear and practical presentation of the spiritual art of arts: stillness in the face of interior pain and confusion.

These spiritual riches, refined and developed by the Orthodox tradition in Christianity, can also be recognized in the teaching and practice of Buddhism, Hinduism and Islamic Sufism.

The fundamental truth of one tradition is to be found under its own proper forms and nuances in others. Far from diminishing the unique value of this hesychastic way of prayer, the most developed spiritual traditions of humanity affirm it as one of the great forms through which humanity reaches out to embrace Infinite Reality.


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À propos de l'auteur

Jean-Yves Leloup, an Orthodox theologian, is well known in France as a popular author on spirituality and psychology. His many works include translations and commentaries on the Coptic Gospel of Mary and the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, as well as a range o books designed to enrich the Western spiritual tradition through greater familiarity with that of the East.

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Éditeur
Gracewing
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0852445377
ISBN 13 
9780852445372
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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