A sunlit absence : silence, awareness, and contemplation / by Martin Laird.
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- 9780199702633
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- 9780199831517
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- 9786613136480
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- BV5091.C7 L36 2011eb
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Introduction: hedgehogs and foxes -- Standing at the gate of the heart: on the practice of contemplation -- Our collection of videos -- The open porches of the mind: on silence and noise -- A sunlit absence: the light of awareness -- Sifted by boredom -- Creative disintegration: depression, panic, and awareness -- Sharp trials in the intellect -- "It don't work for me": prayers of petition and other practical problems.
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"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence." In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian meditation: a vast and flowing spaciousness that embraces both silence and sound, and transcends all subject/object dualisms. Drawing on the wisdom of great contemplatives from St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila to St. H.
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