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Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Image
ISBN: 0307589536
Size: 22.67 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2009-11-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Contemplative Prayer eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this classic text, Thomas Merton offers valuable guidance for prayer. He brings together a wealth of meditative and mystical influences–from John of the Cross to Eastern desert monasticism–to create a spiritual path for today. Most important, he shows how the peace contacted through meditation should not be sought in order to evade the problems of contemporary life, but can instead be directed back out into the world to affect positive change. Contemplative Prayer is one of the most well-known works of spirituality of the last one hundred years, and it is a must-read for all seeking to live a life of purpose in today’s world. In a moving and profound introduction, Thich Nhat Hanh offers his personal recollections of Merton and compares the contemplative traditions of East and West.

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Book Detail:
Author: Richard Rohr
Publisher: Crossroad
ISBN: 9780824519957
Size: 67.87 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2003
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Everything Belongs eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Using Zen parables and personal experiences, Rohr leads readers beyond the techniques of prayer to a place where they can receive the gift of contemplation--and know that everything belongs.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas Keating
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408194015
Size: 33.36 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-01-31
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Daily Reader For Contemplative Living eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This work brings together for each day of the year three prayer practices for contemplative living. First, a brief "active prayer"; second, spiritual reading; and, third, Lectio Divina. The brief introductory prayer sentences are from various sources - the Bible and traditional prayers of the church or of well-known spiritual writers. The spiritual readings come from eleven of Father Keatings books and one audiotape, with a month's worth of readings derived from each work. Each day's entry concludes with a brief selection from the Bible, or Lectio Divina.

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Book Detail:
Author: Larry Hart
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532652682
Size: 38.45 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2018-09-13
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF From The Stone Age To Thomas Merton eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a book about prayer, about Christian prayer, about Christian contemplative or meditative prayer as a way of simply being in the loving presence of God. It begins with prayer as that natural sense of the divine, what has been known for centuries as the sensus divinitatis, that consciousness of the mystery of God that is in each of us from the time of our birth. There are many ways of praying, and they all tend toward contemplation or "mysticism." That is, toward heightening our conscious connection to God, our awareness of the love of God, our wakefulness to the presence of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in us, through us, and around us. By tracing the origins of contemplative prayer, its practice through the Old and New Testament Scriptures, then across the centuries of the Christian era to the contemporary world, it is hoped that the reader will develop a keener appreciation for the depth, beauty, and richness of the Christian spiritual tradition.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lindsay Boyer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532696809
Size: 15.45 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2020-03-19
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Centering Prayer For Everyone eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Contemplative prayer is a way of saying yes to God’s transformative presence. Centering Prayer for Everyone is the most welcoming and accessible guide to Christian contemplative practice available. Focusing on five practices—lectio divina, visio divina, walking meditation, chanting the Psalms, and the silent practice of centering prayer—this practical guide collects in one volume everything needed to learn these practices, including concise instructions, readings, and programs. Clearly formatted so that instructions and programs are easy to find at a glance, Centering Prayer for Everyone can inspire beginners to enter the practices immediately and includes detailed instructions for starting and facilitating both in-person and digital prayer groups. This inclusive handbook explicitly welcomes everyone to these practices, whatever their beliefs or doubts, including Christians, meditators from other traditions, twelve-step members, and anyone filled with longing for spiritual transformation and connection with God.

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Book Detail:
Author: James P. Danaher
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610975995
Size: 70.52 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-09-22
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Contemplative Prayer eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The current popularity of contemplative prayer is not accidental. A twenty-first-century understanding of the human condition has made us suspicious of words and the understanding we craft out of words. Theology generally offers us words that purport to give us a more precise and certain understanding of God, but the mystic has always known that our relationship to God transcends words and the kind of understanding that words produce. The theology of the mystic has always been about understanding our communion with the mystery that is God in order to fall evermore deeply in love with the Divine. That is the ultimate purpose of contemplative prayer, and the purpose of this book is to offer a philosophy and theology of contemplative prayer in the twenty-first century.

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Book Detail:
Author: Geoff Colvin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666702684
Size: 64.13 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-05-24
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Contemplative Prayer At Work In Our Lives eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. While many practicing Christians are relatively satisfied with their prayer life, others are not. The latter often find their prayer practice has dried up. Their traditional forms of prayer at churches have become routine and empty. In a very real sense, there is a void in their spiritual lives. They want a deeper union with God yet experience an unsettling estrangement with their current pathway in prayer. In Contemplative Prayer at Work in Our Lives, Geoff Colvin draws on his own experiences, studies of spiritual literature, and participation in retreats and meditation groups, to unravel the challenging practice of contemplative prayer, a unique form of meditation involving very few words in silence and stillness. Contemplative prayer centers on the fundamental belief that God dwells not only in the world at large but also at the center of our being. This book offers Christians an approach for understanding contemplative prayer followed by hands-on detail for developing and sustaining a practice that hopefully leads to a richer and fuller spiritual journey to union with God.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ray Leonardini
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590565525
Size: 75.29 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-10-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Finding God Within eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. For nearly a decade, Ray Leonardini has been visiting the incarcerated in Folsom State Prison and other correctional facilities, where he has been teaching and facilitating contemplative prayer—the contemporary manifestation of the ancient Christian meditative tradition. In Finding God Within, Leonardini demonstrates the extraordinary power of contemplative (or centering) prayer in transforming the lives of prisoners, and offers insightful analyses of biblical passages that show the power of prayer, faith, and surrender to ease addiction, stress, and despair. Filled with testimonies of prisoners who have been helped by centering prayer, Finding God Within is an essential introduction to contemplative prayer for people of all faiths engaged in prison ministry.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas Keating
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1399408534
Size: 19.98 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2023-01-19
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Active Meditations For Contemplative Prayer eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Thomas Keating was a Cistercian monk who founded the worldwide 'Contemplative Outreach', teaching people the art of meditation. This is a compilation of quotes from his books, to be perused in times of peace as well as crisis. His distinct voice offers solace and wise teaching on the method of Centering Prayer and how it can affect one's daily life. An inspiration and a guide for busy people, who wish to find a moment in their hectic days to reflect in peaceful prayer.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ray Leonardini
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590565509
Size: 21.79 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2016-10-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Going Inside eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Going Inside, the companion volume to his Finding God Within, Ray Leonardini offers a practical manual for all those who are engaged, or are thinking of becoming engaged, with contemplative (or centering) prayer in prison. With advice from his own experience as well as that of prisoners themselves, Going Inside is an essential tool to enable your centering prayer groups to be effective and transformative for everyone involved.

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Book Detail:
Author: Joshua J. Knabb
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315524643
Size: 48.92 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-02-17
Category: Psychology
Language: en
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Download PDF Contemplative Prayer For Christians With Chronic Worry eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Contemplative Prayer for Christians with Chronic Worry presents an eight-week approach for working with recurrent worry. Each chapter offers an introduction for the week, goals, techniques, and homework. Six free audio recordings are also available to download for use when practicing the guided meditations. Clinicians and their clients will find that the workbook helps them explore ways to lessen daily worries through contemplative prayer. Relying on scriptural support, the contemplative Christian tradition, and psychological science, clients will learn how to sit in silence with God, trusting in him during moments of uncertainty, worry, and anxiety.

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Book Detail:
Author: Franz Jalics
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1594671567
Size: 44.69 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2003
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Contemplative Retreat eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "In the depths of their hearts, many people feel a deep longing for God to shape their lives. They are in search of true prayer and personal union with God. In this book, the author offers guidance based on his personal life, spiritual growth, and extensive pastoral experience. Step by step, in ten units, he leads the participant toward an immediate awareness of the reality of God and of his presence. The book can be used as a practical guide for a closed retreat or for a retreat in everyday life"--Publisher's description, back cover.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kurt Bjorklund
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780802463500
Size: 43.98 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2011
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Prayers For Today eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A collection of classic and contemporary prayers, some derived from Scripture and others from the writings of Christian leaders throughout the centuries, this beautiful volume invites readers into a daily experience of closer intimacy with God. Each day's entry focuses on one of ten traditional types of prayer: * Prayers of Thanksgiving * Prayers of Confession * Prayers of Affirmation * Prayers of Petition * Prayers of Renewal * Prayers of Praise and Adoration * Prayers to Have Christ-like Character * Prayers for Wisdom and Guidance * Prayers of Intercession * Prayers of Surrender With 260 entries -- enough for every weekday of an entire year -- Prayers for Today guides readers through a unique kind of spiritual pilgrimage, a pilgrimage toward the very throne room of God. For any reader who's ever wanted more out of prayer or who's ever hungered for a greater sense of God's presence, Prayers for Today promises deepened communion with the One who treasures the words and longings of His people.

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Book Detail:
Author: Nicholas Amato
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512754242
Size: 45.65 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2016-09-27
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Living In God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In addition to learning practices to dispose yourself to Gods presence, you will be able to describe the experience and then live out of it. You will also learn a method for tracking your actions and over a period of time learn how God is moving in your life and to where God may be calling you.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas Keating
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 082640698X
Size: 34.81 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 1994-06-01
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Invitation To Love eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the course of numerous workshops and retreats Father Keating is asked many questions regarding contemplative practice. How will it affect my life? Where does it lead us spiritually? What obstacles will I encounter along the way? How does it work? As Keating answers, this book is "an attempt to provide a road map, as it were, for the journay that begins when Centering Prayer is seriously undertaken...for a deepening relationship with God.">

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Book Detail:
Author: Carl J. Arico
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590565266
Size: 38.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2015-12-15
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF A Taste Of Silence eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Like John Wesley or Jean Pierre de Caussade before him, Catholic priest Arico provides the devout with a model and method for the attainment of a deeper spirituality; unlike them, he feels free to draw wisdom not only from Christian and ancient models but also from Sufism and Thomas Merton to show us how 'God is calling us from our tombs' to the experience of 'divine union.' Arico's spirituality and warmth are profound, and his guide shall be well received by most Christian readers.—Library Journal

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Book Detail:
Author: Donna Marie Ennis
Publisher: Energion Publications
ISBN: 1631992996
Size: 37.67 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2016-12-27
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF The Ground Of God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The pace and assumptions of modern life often make the pursuing things of the spirit difficult. The Ground of God: Contemplative Prayer for the Contemporary Spirit leads the reader to a rhythmic cycle of read, pray, examine. It's four sections work together to encourage growth in one's spiritual life through this cycle so that the reader is drawn step by step into an active and wholly engaging spirituality. Living a prayer filled, bible based life leads the reader to ask the question: What on earth is so commanding? Who is in command?

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Book Detail:
Author: Jan Johnson
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 1631466860
Size: 59.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2017-07-18
Category: Meditation
Language: en
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Download PDF When The Soul Listens eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Where much confusion reigns about what prayer is, what it accomplishes, and how it''s done, When the Soul Listens reintroduces the ancient practice of contemplative prayer as a foundation for a richer and more sustainable prayer life.

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Book Detail:
Author: AJ Sherrill
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1493432796
Size: 42.96 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2021-10-19
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Being With God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. All fruitful doing must begin with being. For many Christians, it's easy to be swept up into the fast pace of modern life, desiring to do much for God. But we struggle to slow down and be with God. According to pastor, Enneagram teacher, and author AJ Sherrill, being with God is what empowers doing for God. Sherrill shares his own journey from "busy" Christianity to the ancient paths of contemplative practices. He equips readers to integrate rhythms of stillness, silence, and solitude, offering step-by-step guidance and examples of finding solitude both personally and on retreats. Sherrill warns that making these changes appears absurd in a society where time is money, productivity is central, and hurry is a way of life. He guides readers gently through the beginning and often confusing stages of contemplative practice. Citing timely insights from the world of neurology and mental health, he shows that solitude is crucial not only for Christian growth but also for holistic flourishing. Foreword by Rich Villodas. Readers will emerge, centered in Christ, well on their way to this goal: slow down, pay attention, be still, and be loved.

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Book Detail:
Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar
Publisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 0898700744
Size: 22.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 1986
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF Prayer eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is perhaps the best and most comprehensive book on prayer ever written. From the persons of the Trinity through the Incarnation to the Church and the very structure of the human person, this book is a powerful synthesis of what prayer is and how to pray. The testament of a great theologian on something which is most personal and interior, contemplative prayer.

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