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Since Holy Week 2021 the Seeds of Silence website has posted a weekly quote about silence each Monday.. |
In May 2022, a new quote series began, called 'Quoting Silence: A month with ... '. In this series, we'll be staying with quotes from one author throughout a whole month.
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May's author is Cynthia Bourgeault. This week's quote from her is below. |
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This week's quote
Monday 23rd May 2022
Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (Cowley Publications, 2004), 157.
Image: Catalin Pop, Romania, catalinpop.ro
This short, image-backed quote is taken from Cynthia Bourgeault, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (Cowley Press, 2004), 157.
Today's short image-backed quote, attached, is taken from Cynthia Bourgeault's book, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (Cowley Publications, 2004), 157. You can read more about this book here. If you are interested in exploring, or are already developing a Centering Prayer (CP) practice and would like to read more about it, then this is the book I would most recommend. Although there are a variety of others, including Thomas Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel (Continuum, 1995), which is the seminal text on this spiritual discipline of silence-based prayer (see here), the book from which May's quotes have come is easier to follow, gives a wider context for the practice and is more up-to date. If you prefer watching videos with spiritual teachers as a way of learning, then here you will find a 35 minute teaching from Cynthia about CP, recorded at the 2017 Festival of Faiths in Louisville, Kentucky. This festival takes place annually in memory of the well-known Cistercian monk, Fr Thomas Merton, who was one of the key figures in reviving the interest in meditation and silence-based prayer amongst Christians through his numerous writings in the 1950s and 60s. You can read more about the Festival of Faiths, which draws together well-regarded teachers from across all of the world's key religions traditions, here. This year's festival, entitled Sacred Stories: Contemplation and Connection, is in November and will be fully accessible on line. If you have enjoyed using the increasing numbers of web-based courses about faith that have become available during Covid, and would like to engage with more of Cynthia Bourgeault's teaching, then there are a variety of courses from her available on her page of Spirituality & Practice website, here.
Today's short image-backed quote, attached, is taken from Cynthia Bourgeault's book, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening (Cowley Publications, 2004), 157. You can read more about this book here. If you are interested in exploring, or are already developing a Centering Prayer (CP) practice and would like to read more about it, then this is the book I would most recommend. Although there are a variety of others, including Thomas Keating's Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel (Continuum, 1995), which is the seminal text on this spiritual discipline of silence-based prayer (see here), the book from which May's quotes have come is easier to follow, gives a wider context for the practice and is more up-to date. If you prefer watching videos with spiritual teachers as a way of learning, then here you will find a 35 minute teaching from Cynthia about CP, recorded at the 2017 Festival of Faiths in Louisville, Kentucky. This festival takes place annually in memory of the well-known Cistercian monk, Fr Thomas Merton, who was one of the key figures in reviving the interest in meditation and silence-based prayer amongst Christians through his numerous writings in the 1950s and 60s. You can read more about the Festival of Faiths, which draws together well-regarded teachers from across all of the world's key religions traditions, here. This year's festival, entitled Sacred Stories: Contemplation and Connection, is in November and will be fully accessible on line. If you have enjoyed using the increasing numbers of web-based courses about faith that have become available during Covid, and would like to engage with more of Cynthia Bourgeault's teaching, then there are a variety of courses from her available on her page of Spirituality & Practice website, here.
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