A sunlit absence : silence, awareness, and contemplation / by Martin Laird.
"The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts," writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence. "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 Si...
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Oxford University Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: hedgehogs and foxes
- Standing at the gate of the heart: on the practice of contemplation
- Our collection of videos
- The open porches of the mind: on silence and noise
- A sunlit absence: the light of awareness
- Sifted by boredom
- Creative disintegration: depression, panic, and awareness
- Sharp trials in the intellect
- "It don't work for me": prayers of petition and other practical problems.