In the Hour of Silence: a Book of Daily Meditations for a Year
Author : Alexander Smellie
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1899
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Smellie
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 1899
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Pete Greig
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441266283
Pete Greig, the acclaimed author of Red Moon Rising, has written his most intensely personal and honest account yet in God on Mute, a book born out of his wife Samie's fight for her life and diagnosis of a debilitating brain tumor. Greig asks the timeless questions of what it means to suffer and to pray and to suffer through the silence because your prayers seem unanswered. This silence, Greig relates, is the hardest thing. The world collapses. Then all goes quiet. Words can't explain, don't fit, won't work. People avoid you and don't know what to say. So you turn to Him and you pray. You need Him more than ever before. But somehow . . . even God Himself seems on mute. In this heart-searching, honest, and deeply profound book, Pete Greig looks at the hard side of prayer, how to respond when there seem to be no answers, and how to cope with those who seek to interpret our experience for us. Here is a story of faith, hope, and love beyond all understanding.
Author : Vijay Eswaran
Publisher : Rythm House Limited
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 31,23 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
Author : Robert Sarah
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681497581
Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."
Author : Brother David Steindl-Rast
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 21,48 MB
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 156975120X
Music of Silence shows how to incorporate the sacred meaning of monastic living into everyday life by following the natural rhythm of the hours of the day. The book tells how mindfulness and prayer can reconnect us with the sources of joy. “An invitation to join in quiet ecstasy, to rediscover sacred rhythms.” — Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart
Author : David Steindl-Rast
Publisher : Harper San Francisco
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780060674519
This beautifully packaged edition offers the chart-topping CD by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos with a series of inspiring meditations by Brother David Steindl-Rast. Arranged according to the eight hours of the Divine Office that the monks chant, these meditations will transport readers to a sacred place, adding a new dimension of spiritual insight to the listening experience.
Author : George Prochnik
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,63 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0385533268
An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
Author : Erling Kagge
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1524733245
What is silence? Where can it be found? Why is it now more important than ever? In 1993, Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge spent fifty days walking solo across Antarctica, becoming the first person to reach the South Pole alone, accompanied only by a radio whose batteries he had removed before setting out. In this book. an astonishing and transformative meditation, Kagge explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his own experiences and discussing the observations of poets, artists, and explorers, Kagge shows us why silence is essential to sanity and happiness—and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude. (With full-color photographs throughout.)
Author : Norris J. Chumley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 18,89 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451479913
Early Christian spirituality is a topic of enduring fascination today among scholars and general readers alike. Stories of hermits living in the desert in their pursuit of God catch our fancy. What motivated them and drew them to silence on their path to God? In this gracious tour through our tradition, Norris J. Chumley (Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer, HarperOne 2011) introduces us to Hesychasm, or silence and the lives of its early practicioners. Then, as only a teacher and mentor can, he opens up those important meanings for today.
Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822333685
Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.