The healing path : a memoir and an invitation / James Finley.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, [2023]Description: xxi, 166 pages ; 19 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781626985100
- 1626985103
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Main Library | NonFiction | 150.195 F513 | Pending hold | 33111011289788 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"These reflections mark out a path, a way of life, in which we human beings may be healed from all that hinders us from experiencing the steady, strong currents of divinity that flow on and on in the bitter-sweet alchemy of our lives." So James Finley begins his book, a contemplative reflection on the spirituality of heating, drawing on lessons from Thomas Merton, the wisdom of the mystics, and the story of his own recovery from the trauma and emotional wounds of his early life. The surprising thing, he shows, is that "the secret opening through which we pass into wholeness is hidden in the center of those wounds we are most afraid to approach."
"A contemplative reflection and memoir on the spirituality of healing"-- Provided by publisher.
My childhood initiation into trauma and transcendence -- Strangely tattered, strangely whole -- The sign of Jonas -- Entering the monastery -- Silence -- From the pig barn to the sheep barn and beyond -- Refuge -- The long way home -- The healing journey in traumatizing time -- The gift -- The path.