A sunlit absence : silence, awareness, and contemplation / by Martin Laird.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laird, M. S. (Martin S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contemplation.

Silence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Silence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""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. Hesychios, Simone

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-983151-3

1-283-13648-1

9786613136480

0-19-970263-2

OCLC:

732052483