Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation

Author/Contributor(s):	Laird, Martin
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	07/28/2011
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In his sequel to the best-selling Into the Silent Land, Martin Laird guides the reader more deeply into the sanctuary of Christian meditation. He focuses here on negotiating key moments of difficulty on the contemplative path, showing how the struggles we resist become vehicles of the healing silence we seek. With clarity and grace Laird shows how we can move away from identifying with our turbulent, ever-changing thoughts and emotions to the cultivation of a "sunlit absence"--the luminous awareness in which God's presence can most profoundly be felt.