"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. …
This volume examines the forms and functions, ways and means of meditation from c1300 to c1600. It analyzes the internal exercises that mobilized the sensitive faculties of motion, emotion, and sense and the intellective faculties of reason, memory, and will.
This book is designed to initiate the reader into a deep, living relationship with God. Written by an acknowledged modern spiritual master, the book moves beyond "discursive meditation and particular acts to the intuitive level of contemplation." [The author] gives an overview o…
Designed to initiate the reader into a deep, living relationship with God, this book is written by an acknowledged modern spiritual master, Thomas Keating. -- Adapted from the back cover summary.
This 20th anniversary edition of Bloomsbury's best-selling spiritual classic on centering prayer in the Christian contemplative tradition has sold over half a million in the English language and has appeared in 10 foreign-language editions (Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, I…