The Way of Unknowing: Expanding Spiritual Horizons Through Meditation - Couverture souple

Main, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848251181 ISBN 13 : 9781848251182

Editeur : Canterbury Press Norwich, 2012

Synopsis

John Main understood that the remedy for the malaise that affects individuals and nations alike was the love of Christ. He taught that when we build our lives on the rock-like foundation of this love, we become rooted in the ultimate reality, and the winds and storms of life, and even death itself, no longer have power over us. In the short chapters of this book, he shows how we can find the way to this foundation and root ourselves in the eternal love that nothing can destroy. The way is simplicity itself, but it is also a way of dispossession. Daily meditation brings us to the place where our lives become wholly immersed in the Spirit of God, but it requires that we come empty handed and prepared to walk the way of unknowing.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

John Main reintroduced the lost practice of contemplative prayer to the church in the West. In what was a radical departure 40 years ago, he formed a new kind of Benedictine community to which lay people came to learn the art of meditative prayer. This, like his other bestselling books, is made up of the simple and inviting talks he gave to many hundreds of groups right up until his death in 1982. Today, through the worldwide network he founded (the World Community for Christian Meditation) people in all walks of life are discovering the transformative power of being silent before God. The prayer of silence is pure prayer where we lay aside our own agendas, the words and notions by which we confine and limit God, and we allow God s mysterious and silent presence within us to become not only a reality, but the reality that gives meaning shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.

Biographie de l'auteur :

JOHN MAIN OSB served in the diplomatic service in the Far East, and taught law at Trinity College, Dublin. He founded the World Community for Christian Meditation, a worldwide spiritual family linked through daily prayer, operating in 114 countries and with over 100,000 members worldwide. www.wccm.org

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1848251181
• ISBN 13: 9781848251182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144