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Book Synopsis A Little Book of Unknowing by : Jennifer Kavanagh
Download or read book A Little Book of Unknowing written by Jennifer Kavanagh and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if the facts on which we base our lives are shown to be unreliable? What if our expectations are confounded? What if we let go of those assumptions and expectations? What if we let go of our familiar, habitual ways of thinking? What if we let go of the very need to know? Unknowing is at the centre of spiritual life. It is only by creating a space in which anything can happen that we allow God to speak; only by stepping back that we allow space for that unpredictable Spirit that brings us gifts beyond any of our imaginings... "God dwells only where man steps back to give him room."
Book Synopsis The Cloud of Unknowing by : William Johnston
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by William Johnston and published by Image. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God. Written in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious thinkers as St. John of the Cross and Teilhard de Chardin, as well as countless others in search of God. Offering a practical guide to the life of contemplation, the author explains that ordinary thoughts and earthly concepts must be buried beneath a “cloud of forgetting,” while our love must rise toward a God hidden in the “cloud of unknowing.” THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING, also included in this volume, is a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and a consciousness only of the divine. William Johnston, an authority on fourteenth-century mysticism and spirituality, provides an accessible discussion of the works, detailing what is known about the history of the texts and their author. In a new foreword, Huston Smith draws on his extensive knowledge of the varieties of religious experience to illuminate the relevance of these works for contemporary readers.
Book Synopsis The Valley of Unknowing by : Philip Sington
Download or read book The Valley of Unknowing written by Philip Sington and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of a two-decades-old, but world-famous, novel in the last days of Communist East Germany is asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript that has dangerous political overtones, putting himself and his young lover in danger.
Book Synopsis The Cloud of Unknowing by : Anonymous
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works by :
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains The Cloud of Unknowing, The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer. Against a tradition of devotional writings which focussed on knowing God through Christ's Passion and his humanity, these texts describe a transcendent God who exists beyond human knowledge and human language. These four texts are at the heart of medival mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine.
Book Synopsis The Little Book of Christian Mysticism by : Carl McColman
Download or read book The Little Book of Christian Mysticism written by Carl McColman and published by Hampton Roads Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 300 quotations, this book invites the reader to delve into the writings of the great contemplatives and mystics of the past two thousand years. The Little Book of Christian Mysticism provides a user-friendly, insightful, and potentially life-changing introduction to the essential teachings of the greatest mystics in the western wisdom traditions, past and present, including Francis of Assisi, Hildegard of Bingen, Thomas Merton, Evelyn Underhill, Meister Eckhart, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and Julian of Norwich. Readers can use this book to initiate themselves into this visionary and ecstatic spiritual lineage, and they can also use it as a book of daily meditations. Small enough to fit in one's pocket or handbag, this is truly a user-friendly introduction to this venerable body of wisdom.
Book Synopsis The Unknown University by : Roberto Bolaño
Download or read book The Unknown University written by Roberto Bolaño and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluxe edition of Bolano’s complete poetry Perhaps surprisingly to some of his fiction fans, Roberto Bolano touted poetry as the superior art form, able to approach an infinity in which “you become infinitely small without disappearing.” When asked, “What makes you believe you’re a better poet than a novelist?” Bolano replied, “The poetry makes me blush less.” The sum of his life’s work in his preferred medium, The Unknown University is a showcase of Bolano’s gift for freely crossing genres, with poems written in prose, stories in verse, and flashes of writing that can hardly be categorized. “Poetry,” he believed, “is braver than anyone.”
Book Synopsis This Great Unknowing: Last Poems by : Denise Levertov
Download or read book This Great Unknowing: Last Poems written by Denise Levertov and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-17 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Denise Levertov died on December 20, 1997, she left behind forty finished poems, which now form her last collection, This Great Unknowing. Few poets have possessed so great a gift or so great a body of work—when she died at 74, she had been a published poet for more than half a century. The poems themselves shine with the artistry of a writer at the height of her powers.
Book Synopsis The Cloud of Unknowing by : Elizabeth Ruth Obbard
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who turn to spiritual classics for guidance and inspiration often find their style daunting. The original texts still have much to offer but their diction and idiom, chosen for another era and audience, pose an obstacle to many contemporary readers. The Cloud of Unknowing for Everyone is the latest in a series that aims to make some of the greatest Christian teachers accessible to all. The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an unknown fourteenth century author, points out that all we can know of God is slight; God in Godself is unknowable to our limited intellect and thought. Only love can bridge the gap, love like an arrow of longing simple, straightforward and direct. All who feel called to a life of prayer will be captivated by the balanced, precise and practical insights of The Cloud. In her retelling of this classic, Obbard invites contemporary readers to join previous generations who have discovered the riches of this classic text.
Book Synopsis The Cloud of Unknowing by : Thomas H. Cook
Download or read book The Cloud of Unknowing written by Thomas H. Cook and published by HMH. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “gripping” mystery revolving around a family tragedy, and a woman who may or may not be descending into madness (Entertainment Weekly). David Sears grew up terrorized by the ravings of his schizophrenic father, a frustrated literary genius who openly preferred David’s sister Diana for her superior intelligence. When the Old Man died, David thought the madness had finally died with him. But the Sears family was not through with its troubles. The drowning of Diana’s mentally ill son has been ruled a tragic “misadventure,” a conclusion she refuses to accept. After hastily divorcing her husband, she sets out to prove his culpability. Her increasingly manic behavior is becoming hard for David to ignore. He finds himself afraid for his own family’s safety—and choosing his words carefully when answering the detective. Edgar Award–winning author Thomas H. Cook explores the power of blood to define us, bind us, and sometimes destroy us, in a novel of “consuming suspense almost too concentrated to bear” (New York Daily News). “So spare and precise, it feels as if it has been chiseled in stone with something like a surgical instrument.” —Joyce Carol Oates “What’s at stake isn’t so much the resolution of a mystery as the integrity of a family.” —Time Out New York
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Book Synopsis The Book of Unknowing by : Fred Davis
Download or read book The Book of Unknowing written by Fred Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOOK OF UNKNOWING continues the leading-edge work begun in the The Book of Undoing. That was about how-to awaken, while this one is primarily about the post-awakening experience itself--how to clear. Topics addressed include how to assess if you're awake or not, why you may need a teacher, what our experience is in post-awakening, experiments and inquiries, and dozens more.The Book of Unknowing contains 33 articles that have previously appeared on AwakeningClarityNow.com or other websites, which are freshly edited and introduced by John Ames, author of the well received novel, Adventures in Nowhere.
Book Synopsis A Little Daily Wisdom by : Carmen Acevedo Butcher
Download or read book A Little Daily Wisdom written by Carmen Acevedo Butcher and published by Paraclete Press (MA). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through this book of daily readings, discover an astonishing view of a God who is tender, nurturing, forgiving, and as close as breath.
Book Synopsis Hope in the Dark by : Rebecca Solnit
Download or read book Hope in the Dark written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker
Book Synopsis The Mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing by : William Johnston
Download or read book The Mysticism of The Cloud of Unknowing written by William Johnston and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, mystics have groped for words in which to account for the supreme reality of this experience which not only illuminates a man's mind and fills his heart with new strength, but even radically transforms his whole life. All this is said in classic and unforgettable pages by TheCloud of Unknowing, the work of an anonymous fourteenth-century English writer.
Book Synopsis Blood of the Fold by : Terry Goodkind
Download or read book Blood of the Fold written by Terry Goodkind and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seeker of Truth takes his rightful place as the new ruler of D’Hara in the third novel of the #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s epic fantasy series. After escaping from the Palace of Prophets, Richard comes to terms with his true identity as a War Wizard. But when he brings down the barrier between the Old and New Worlds, the Imperial Order suddenly poses a threat to the the freedom of all humankind. As the Imperial Order sends delegations and armies into the New World, Richard’s only chance to stop the invasion is to claim his heritage as the new Lord Rahl and ruler of D’Hara. But convincing the D’Harans of his legitimacy won’t be easy. Meanwhile, a powerful enemy is on the trail of Richard’s love, Kahlan Amnell. And when the spell Richard cast to protect her is broken, he must martial his newfound authority—and the armies that come with it—to save her life.
Book Synopsis Where Only Love Can Go-Rev by : The Cloud of Unknowing
Download or read book Where Only Love Can Go-Rev written by The Cloud of Unknowing and published by 30 Days with a Great Spiritual. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Only Love Can Go explores the central mystery of who God is and offers readers an introduction to the tradition of contemplative prayer, assisting them to view God in a new way. With daily morning and evening devotions, this distillation of the 600-year-old classic unpacks The Cloud of Unknowing for the modern spiritual seeker.
Book Synopsis The Book of the Perfect Life by : David Blamires
Download or read book The Book of the Perfect Life written by David Blamires and published by . This book was released on 2010-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Perfect Life crystallized the mystical experience of the late Middle Ages, yet still speaks to seekers today. Martin Luther wrote of this 14th century devotional work that "next to the Bible and St. Augustine, no other book has come to my attention from which I have learned-and desired to learn-more concerning God, Christ, man and what all things are." Theologica Deutsch-the title this work has most commonly appeared under- has been through 190 editions in ten languages throughout its 600-year history. Now drawing on the latest German critical edition of the work, David Blamires brings us the definitive English translation of this classic mystical work, The Book of the Perfect Life.
