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A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation
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Books > Spirituality > Spirituality Books
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| Author/Artist: |
MARTIN LAIRD |
| ISBN / ID: |
9780195378726 |
| Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
| Binding: |
HARDBACK |
| Price: |
AU$29.95 |
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| Description: |
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. Hesychios, Simone Weil, and many others, Laird shows how we can uncover the deeper levels of awareness that rest within us like buried treasure waiting to be found.
The key insight of the book is that as our practice matures, so will our experience of life's ordeals, sorrows, and joys expand into generous, receptive maturity. With clarity and grace Laird shows how we can move away from identifying with our turbulent, ever-changing thoughts and emotions to the cultivation of a "sunlit absence", the luminous awareness in which God's presence can most profoundly be felt. |
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