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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation

10 best books like The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation (Thomas Merton): The Stone Diaries, Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others, The Cost of Discipleship, What's Wrong with the World, The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation, The Cloud of Unknowing, The Rule of Saint Benedict, Answering the Contemplative Call: First Steps on the Mystical Path, The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

The Stone Diaries
AuthorCarol Shields
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell...
Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
AuthorBarbara Brown Taylor
ISBN0062406582
The renowned and beloved New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights...
The Cost of Discipleship
AuthorDietrich Bonhoeffer
ISBN0684815001
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus in this classic text on ethics, humanism, and civic duty.

What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman,...
What's Wrong with the World
AuthorG.K. Chesterton
ISBN0486454274
In the aptly titled treatise What's Wrong With the World, one of the twentieth century's most memorable and prolific writers takes on education, government, big business, feminism, and a host of other topics. A steadfast champion of the working man, family, and faith, Chesterton eloquently opposed...
The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN1629117293
Invitation to a Dance

The Trinity is supposed to be the central, foundational doctrine of our entire Christian belief system, yet we're often told that we shouldn't attempt to understand it because it is a "mystery." Should we presume to try to breach this mystery? If we could, how would it transform...
The Cloud of Unknowing
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0060737751
Widely considered a hallmark of Western literature and spirituality, The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous English monk’s sublime expression of what separates God from humanity. Originally written in the 14th century, now part of the HarperCollins Spiritual classics series, this beautiful...
The Rule of Saint Benedict
AuthorBenedict of Nursia
Composed nearly fifteen hundred years ago by the father of Western monasticism, The Rule of St. Benedict has for centuries been the guide of religious communities. St. Benedict's rules of obedience, humility, and contemplation are not only prerequisites for formal religious societies, they also...
Answering the Contemplative Call: First Steps on the Mystical Path
AuthorCarl McColman
ISBN1571746773
The mystical path is not some sort of static experience for the select few, says Carl McColman, rather, it is a living tradition, a rich and many-layered dimension of spirituality that is in large measure a quest to find the mysteries at the heart of the universe, paradoxically nestled within the heart...
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
AuthorDavid Deida
ISBN1591792576
The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for Men

What is your true purpose in life? What do women really want? What makes a good lover? If you're a man reading this, you've undoubtedly asked yourself these questions—but you may not have had much luck answering them. Until now.

In The Way of the...
Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
AuthorTish Harrison Warren
ISBN0830846239
Many of us go through the day feeling like we don't have time for God. But God can become present to us in surprising ways through our everyday routines. Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices and habits that form us. Each chapter looks...
Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN0470907754
A fresh way of thinking about spirituality that grows throughout life In Falling Upward, Fr. Richard Rohr seeks to help readers understand the tasks of the two halves of life and to show them that those who have fallen, failed, or "gone down" are the only ones who understand "up." Most of us tend to think...
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0061686158
Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life features the wisdom that spiritual leader and counselor Henri J. M. Nouwen brought to the essential question asked by every Christian and seeker: What should I do with my life?
 
Nouwen emphasizes listening to the Word of God—in our hearts, in...
Yoga of the Subtle Body: A Guide to the Physical and Energetic Anatomy of Yoga
AuthorTias Little
ISBN1611801028
With his expert teachings, philosophical insights, and pragmatic imagery, world-class yoga instructor Tias Little turns the anatomy of the physical body into a tool for navigating the subtle body.

Yoga of the Subtle Body unites practical somatic concepts and wisdom teachings in this guide...
Resurrecting Jesus: Embodying the Spirit of a Revolutionary Mystic
AuthorAdyashanti
The story of Jesus has not waned in its power to change lives. Yet today, even though the majority of us grew up in a culture suffused by the mythos of Jesus, many of us feel disconnected from the essence and vitality of his teachings. With Resurrecting Jesus, Adyashanti invites us to rediscover the life...
Spiritual Direction: Wisdom for the Long Walk of Faith
AuthorHenri J.M. Nouwen
ISBN0060754737
Spiritual Direction gives us the unique and unrivaled experience of having Henri Nouwen as our personal spiritual director, answering our questions about the spiritual life in his wise, comfortable, and engaging style. With Nouwen's guidance, we can reorient our lives and open the door to true spiritual...
The Fratricides
AuthorNikos Kazantzakis
ISBN0571105068
عدت قبل أيام من أثينا، عاصمة اليونان، بعد رحلة قصيرة لم تكتمل بسبب حادث مؤلم ومخجل تعرضت له في أحد المتاحف. كنت مستغرقًا في التجول بين الأيقونات المسيحية،...
True Meditation: Discover the Freedom of Pure Awareness
AuthorAdyashanti
ISBN1591794676
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose? In the 14 years that he studied Zen, Adyashanti found that most seasoned meditators had used the practice as "an end instead...
Way of the Ascetics: The Ancient Tradition of Discipline and Inner Growth
AuthorTito Colliander
ISBN0881410497
The Way of The Ascetics by Tito Colliander
Where the ascetics seem to meet the positive psychologists
Excellent advice- but will we take it?

This is a great book, albeit in small format it has only 125 pages.
It is full of excellent advice.
The trouble is, we do the opposite.
It...
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