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In the Grip of Light
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 60.00What is it like in practice to come close to the presence of God? Are there words which can, in some way, explain the nature of that experience? In this compelling study, Paul Murray draws attention to both the wisdom and lived experience of those men and women who know, at first hand, of the light and fire of which they speak. Murray demonstrates... more...
Prayer of the Heart in Christian and Sufi Mysticism
The Golden Sufi Center 2012; US$ 9.99Guiding the reader through the stages of mystical prayer?a way to create a living relationship with the Divine within the heart?this book draws upon Christian and Sufi sources such as St. Teresa of Avila, ?Attār, St. John of the Cross, and Rūmī. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee describes the stages of prayer: how prayer is first born of need, but then takes one... more...
The Thomas Keating Reader
Lantern Books 2012; US$ 9.99For a quarter of a century, Trappist monk Fr. Thomas Keating has been contributing articles on Centering Prayerthe contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian contemplative traditionto the newsletter of Contemplative Outreach, the organization that he helped establish to promote this tradition. The Thomas Keating Reader gathers... more...
Invitation to Love 20th Anniversary Edition
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 65.00Invitation to Love provides a road map for the journey that begins when Centering Prayer is seriously undertaken. Pointing to some of the recognizable landmarks on this journey, as well as to its ultimate destination, Father Keating addresses common questions regarding contemplative practice: How will it affect my life? Where does it lead us spiritually?... more...
A Sunlit Absence
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 17.99"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... more...
Centering Prayer
The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The practice of prayer and meditation in modern Western Christianity is rooted in the Eastern tradition of early Church prayer as well as the wisdom of early Church fathers. In Centering Prayer , M. Basil Pennington, the author of the highly acclaimed Daily We Touch Him , returns to these roots, offering contemporary Christians a new approach to... more...
Our Sound is Our Wound
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 19.95Our lives are lived against the backdrop of internal and external soundscapes. The sounds, noises and music with which we are surrounded in modern life have spiritual implications. There is also a soundtrack within us that plays constantly through memory, dreams, anxiety or thought. What are these soundscapes, and how do we listen for the voice of... more...
Spirituality, Contemplation, and Transformation
Lantern Books 2007; US$ 9.99In Spirituality, Contemplation & Transformation, some of the leading practitioners of centering prayerthe contemporary expression of the Christian contemplative tradition as developed by the desert fathers and mothers and elaborated by mystics such as saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avilawrite about the many and varied benefits of... more...
Into the Silent Land
Oxford University Press, USA 2006; US$ 17.99Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with the breath to cultivate stillness, and the practice... more...
Manifesting God
Lantern Books 2005; US$ 6.99Manifesting God is about the principles of contemplative prayerthe retreat into the "inner room" mentioned by Jesus in Matthew 6:6, where the individual is able to meet God. In the inner room, the silent space in which God unloads the burdens and false selves that govern our individuality and our daily lives, God acts as a divine therapist,... more...









