Product Description

James Finley recognizes the depth and range of today's spiritual yearning and refuses to settle for anything but its most profound possibilities. He opens our everyday living to the contemplative traditions, practices, and teaching that have been traditionally the preserve of the monk, and he does so without diluting them. The Contemplative Heart, enables readers to realize that wherever we live, whatever we do, the richest possibilities of a contemplative life are within our reach-that they are in fact what we have been searching for all along.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #268546 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

From the Back Cover
It is possible to live a contemplative life in today's world.

James Finley recognizes the depth and range of today's spiritual yearning and refuses to settle for anything but its most profound possibilities.

He opens our everyday living to the contemplative traditions, practices, and teaching that have been traditionally the preserve of the monk, and he does so without diluting them.

He makes us realize that wherever we live, whatever we do, the richest possibilities of a contemplative life are within our reach-that they are in fact what we have been searching for all along.

He shows us how to:
develop a contemplative way of life
discover our contemplative practices
find our contemplative community and enter it
find our contemplative teaching and follow it.

The Contemplative Heart is a deeply satisfying contemplative book about contemplation.

About the Author
James Finley is the author of "Merton's Palace of Nowhere: A Search for God Through Awareness of the True Self" (Ave Maria Press, September 1980).