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Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Martin Laird, O.S.A., “Continually Breathe Jesus Christ: Stillness and Watchfulness in the Philokalia,” Communio 34 (2007): 243–263.
Martin Laird • An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
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Anthony SJ de Mello • The Way to Love: Meditations for Life
Reactive mind would be resigned to live in this prison, insulated from the simple suchness of life and love were it not for the fact that creation bestows an instinctual orientation toward our ground in the grounding love of God.
Martin Laird • An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
Through the medicine of grace, the eye of our heart is healed by the gradual removal of the lumber of mental clutter, “the plank in our eye” that obscures the radiance of the heart. This radiance is a ray of God’s own light.
Martin Laird • An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
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Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
The fact that most of us experience throughout most of our lives a sense of absence or distance from God is the great illusion that we are caught up in; it is the human condition.
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
by the subjects. In his excellent book The Compassionate Mind, psychologist Paul Gilbert,