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The Way of Unknowing: Expanding Spiritual Horizons Through Meditation

ISBN: 9781848251182 | 1848251181
Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Presbyterian Pub Corp
Pub. Date: 4/30/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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.
How to Meditatep. ix
Introduction by Laurence Freemanp. xi
In Reverence in our Heartp. 1
God's Two Silencesp. 5
Why we Renounce our Selvesp. 9
The Polep. 12
Potential for 'Being'p. 15
God is the Centre of my Soulp. 18
Growth in the Presencep. 21
Being and Existencep. 24
'Isn... MOREp. 27
The Barrier of Distractionsp. 32
Returning to Innocencep. 35
The Listening Heartp. 38
Beyond All Imagesp. 41
From Isolation to Lovep. 44
A Meaningful Lifep. 47
Freedom in Beingp. 51
The Discipline of Silencep. 54
The Unselfish Selfp. 57
The Mind of Christp. 60
Open to Prayerp. 63
Recovering Onenessp. 66
Real Knowingp. 70
The Non-mechanics of the Pilgrimagep. 73
Reverencep. 76
Growing in Godp. 79
Stillnessp. 82
Why is Meditation Difficult?p. 85
Meditation as Conversionp. 88
Eternal Youthp. 91
Worship in Spiritp. 94
Wholehearted in Christp. 97
God Incarnatep. 100
Thought, Feeling, Lovep. 103
Questions and Responsesp. 106
Religious Lovep. 114
The Way who is Christp. 117
Past, Future and the Presentp. 120
Redemptive Lovep. 123
Contemplation and Actionp. 127
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John Main became a Benedictine monk after diplomatic service in the Far East and teaching law at Trinity College, Dublin. He founded an open Benedictine community in Montreal from which spiritual family linked through the practice of daily prayer, www.wccm.org


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