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 A Pearl of Great Price
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $6.95
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"This
little book offers encouragement and practical suggestions about how to
start a group and then, of course, how best to sustain and nurture it. I
hope you will see why a small, faithful meditation group has such
meaning for our time. It is a work is of great importance. By changing
the people who meditate together it also helps to change the world. Our
world and our children need the silent power of contemplation woven into
all social institutions. We need to moderate our frenetic and wasteful
lifestyles. We thirst for the healing and transforming power that only
the spirit can provide." Laurence Freeman OSB. |
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 A Short Span of Days
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $7.95
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How is it possible that patients at the terminus of life have been known to say: "This last year has been the best year of my life?" Death is a truth we instinctively try to avoid or deny. But when confronted with the reality of it, we can only break down and disintegrate or break through and transcend.
Fr. Laurence shows how meditation opens the way to this breakthrough.
In meditation, as we drop all immediate concerns and attachments and
become silent, we experience loss and separation. We taste death, and
our fear of it gradually loses its power over us leaving us free to see
life's ultimate horizon. In that new vision we find meaning and the gift of wisdom. |
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 Christian Meditation:
Your Daily Practice
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $6.95
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This pocket-size book is Laurence Freeman's little 'manual for beginner' on meditation.
He gives the beginner an introduction to Christian Meditation and the
ongoing meditator a reminder of what the basic teaching is. The topics covered are:
* What is prayer? * How do we pray?
* How is meditation Christian? * The practice.
* What are the fruits of meditation?
* Progress; the journey.
There is also a valuable and detailed appendix which includes John Main's favorite quotations from the New Testament. |
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 Common Ground:
Letters to a World Community of Meditators
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $13.95
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This is the second collection of letters to Meditators written by
Lawrence Freeman. The theme of the book is taken from the last letter,
which describes the pilgrimage of two hundred Christian meditators and
their Buddhist friends to Bodhgaya, India, where they shared three days
of meditation and dialogue with the Dalai Lama and his community. |
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 First Sight:
The Experience of Faith
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $16.95
Status: In Stock
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In this book Fr. Laurence shows that the basic experience of
contemplation is the experience of faith and that we all need to develop this in order to become fully human. We are all capable of it - indeed
we are designed for it. |
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 Jesus: The Teacher Within
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $23.95
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(From the forward by the Dalai Lama)
"Fr.
Laurence has written this book, Jesus: The Teacher Within, in full
Christian faith, explaining from his own experience how relating to
Jesus Christ and his teaching, combined with meditation, can illuminate
the spiritual life... I feel
sure that readers of this book, especially those who seek personal
transformation and inner peace, will find much to ponder and apply here
in their own daily practice." |
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 Light Within
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $14.95
Status: In Stock
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From the forward by Yehudi Menuhin:
"May
I, as a Jew by birth and background, comment on this guide to
meditation? Perhaps I can best describe it as a guide for the reader to
himself...
I would like of
think of this book as a guide for those of all religions and even for
those not claiming any particular religious label but apprehending and
recognizing the ultimate Unknowable in the unity, the continuity, the
interdependence within all creation." |
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 Meditation with Children
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
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This
book focuses on teaching meditation to children, who can be naturally
and totally present in the moment and are thus capable of pure prayer,
prayer of the heart. Meditation can be a powerful way to allow their
spirit the deepest possible contact with the Life Source and the space
within which to expand. |
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 Sensing God:
Learning to Meditate During Lent
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
Status: In Stock
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"Laurence
Freeman has the ability to say profound and revelatory things in simple
sentences... This is a rich feast that will not just feed but might
just transform the reader." - Richard Rohr OFM
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 Six-Week Introductory Course:
a handbook for presenters
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $9.95
Status: In Stock
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This book offers a step-by-step guide for an introductory course on Christian meditation, covering the following six topics: What is Christian meditation?, John Main, The Roots of Meditation in the Christian Tradition, The Wheel of Prayer: meditation and other ways of prayer, Leaving Self Behind and The Fruits of Meditation. The book offers a plan for the course with all the necessary materials including simple and precise instructions, templates, and links to online audio recordings. |
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 The Goal of Life
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
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Fr. Laurence Freeman shares insights into understanding Jesus in order to better understand ourselves. He teaches that the goal of life is to know fully who we are, and that self-transcendence is the way to self-knowledge.
In this state, the center of consciousness no longer resides in the ego. Individual identity is not lost but it is transcended. The practice of meditation harmonizes and integrates in the spirit all that we think and feel and say and do. Meditation, the simplifying practice of silence and stillness, inaugurates a whole new way of being. It is a way of life. |
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 The Selfless SelfLaurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $15.95
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Many people have a spiritual thirst and hunger that is as urgent as the material needs of developing nations. Unless affluent societies escape the addiction to materialism, they will be unable to feel the depth of compassion from which works of mercy and justice spring. This work presents a way to spiritual health that is both ancient and new. |
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 Why We Are Here
Laurence Freeman, O.S.B.
Price $12.95
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Fr. Freeman examines the radical question of our being in the world. We are here, he reflects, to come to continuous prayer, to a constant openness to the prayer of Christ in our hearts.
Continuous prayer, he says, must not be understood as saying prayers
all the time but as the living in a childlike state of simplicity, in
which our ego concern are left behind, opening the way to interior
silence, communion with God, and greater power of attention to others.
Freeman examines the teachings of John Cassian to show that meditation,
with the aid of the ancient Christian tradition of the continuous
saying of a mantra, is a path and discipline to reach this state of
simplicity and poverty of spirit of pure prayer called for by the Lord. |
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