Sunlit Absence Laird Martin
Sunlit Absence Laird Martin The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts, writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. Drawing on the wisdom of great contemplatives from St. Not a…
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Sunlit Absence Laird Martin
The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts, writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. Drawing on the wisdom of great contemplatives from St. 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.
Teresa of Avila to St. Augustine and St. Hesychios, Simone Weil, and many others, Laird shows how we can uncover the deeper levels of awareness that rest within us like buried treasure waiting to be found.
The key insight of the book is that as our practice matures, so will our experience of life's ordeals, sorrows, and joys expand into