Böcker av John Main

An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer. This classic book explores how stepping aside from the busyness of our daily lives and being still in the presence of God is the key to discovering our true selves.

John Main understood that the remedy for the malaise that affects individuals and nations alike was the love of Christ. He taught that when we build our lives on the rock-like foundation of this love, we become rooted in the ultimate reality, and the winds and storms of life, and even death itself, no longer have power over us. In the short chapters of this book, he shows how we can find the way to this foundation and root ourselves in the eternal love that nothing can destroy.The way is simplicity itself, but it is also a way of dispossession. Daily meditation brings us to the place where our lives become wholly immersed in the Spirit of God, but it requires that we come empty handed and prepared to walk the way of unknowing.

This simple, practical guide to 'pure prayer' teaches that we should give God freedom to be himself in our hearts without controlling him with words and images.

Turns to the source and focus of all the author's inspirational teaching about prayer - the presence of Christ. He describes this prayer as the stream of love that flows constantly between Jesus and his Father.

Offers insights into the kind of prayer that enables us to bring the whole of our being to God, and to let the power released into the world by the life, death and resurrection of Jesus flow through our hearts and into the world.

Fully Alive is a new, previously unpublished collection of talks by one of the 20th century's most influential spiritual teachers: the Benedictine monk, John Main OSB, who reintroduced the practice of contemplative prayer to the church in the West.