TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laird,M.S.
TI  - A sunlit absence: silence, awareness, and contemplation 
SN  - 9780199702633
AV  - BV5091.C7 L36 2011eb
U1  - 248.3/4 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Contemplation
KW  - Silence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Meditations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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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