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Contemplative Spirituality -
Recommendations for reading:
The Cloud of Unknowing.
Edited by William Johnston. Garden City: Image Books, 1973
Chittister, Joan, OSB,
Illuminated Life: Monastic Wisdom for Seekers of Light
. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2000
Cummings, Charles, OCSO,
The Mystery of the Ordinary
Davis, Bruce.
Monastery Without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence. Berkeley: Celestial Arts, 1990
Finley, James.
The Contemplative Heart
. Notre Dame: Sorin Books, 2000
Manss, Virginia and Frohlich, Mary, Editors.
The Lay Contemplative
: Testimonies, Perspectives, Resources. Cincinnati: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2000
Merton, Thomas.
New Seeds of Contemplation
. New York: Direction Books, 1961
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The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation.
New York: Harper Collins Books, 2003
Skinner, John. ed.
Wisdom of the Cloister
. New York: Image Books, 1999
Vest, Norvene.
No Moment Too Small: Rhythms of Silence, Prayer and Holy Reading.
Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1994
A Serious call to a devout Holy Life - William Law
The New Stations of the Cross : The Way of the Cross According to Scripture