We now take it for granted that aspects of the monastic life can sustain our daily lives in the world, but we owe this understanding to John Main, whose vision of a 'monastery without walls' has grown into a worldwide network of people who today practice Christian meditation. This is his classic book on how to practice contemplative prayer, or Christian meditation. 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 and knowing God as 'the ground of our being'.

Word into Silence

John Main

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd.

The Joy of Being: Daily Readings with John Main (Modern Spirituality Series)

Darton,Longman & Todd

This volume includes John Main's treatment of themes which are important to all those concerned with deepening their spiritual life: the need for spiritual discipline; ways to see the fruits of prayer in daily life; how meditation deepens one's relationship with Christ; and the contemplative experience as the meeting-point of religions.

The Heart of Creation

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Many thousands of people across the world have found their spiritual lives enriches by the daily practice of Christian meditation, the method of silent prayer taught by Benedictine monk John Main. It is a tradition which draws on the ancient wisdom of the Bible, the Hindu Upanishads and the early Christian Desert Fathers.John Main wrote several books on contemplative prayer before he died in 1982, but this collection is the only one to draw the essence of all his teachings into one volume. Paul Harris has devotedly selected the essential extracts from each of John Main's works and arranged them here in an attractive and practical daily readings format.

Silence and Stillness in Every Season

Continuum

<p>This book is written to encourage people to "turn aside, " not to avoid or escape life, but to discover through meditation their deepest center and encounter the spirit of Jesus dwelling within. To understand Christian truths on a theoretical level is one thing; for these truths to come alive in our hearts is something very different. But in the silent saying of our short prayer, our mantra, in the simplicity of concentrating upon God in silence and openness, this "realization" can become a reality; enabling our relationships with others to grow in depth and understanding.</p>

Paulist Pr

John Main (1926-1982), an English Benedictine monk, pioneered the practice of Christian meditation. His genius was to recover a way into the contemplative experience for ordinary people within the Christian tradition. Hailed by Bede Griffiths as the "most important spiritual guide in the church today, " Main's work inspired the foundation of the World Community for Christian Meditation and a network of hundreds of meditation groups around the world.John Main introduces the practice of Christian meditation for modern people who wish to deepen their spiritual lives.

John Main (The Modern Spirituality Series)

TEMPLEGATE PUB.

<p>These conferences were first given at the Abbey of Gethsemani, Thomas Merton's monastery, and have since proved an excellent introduction to the way of meditation in the Christian tradition. John Main begins by describing his own spiritual journey on this way, and then shows how it is a path open to all who wish to "open themselves fully to the wonder of God, to the enduring present."</p>

Christian Meditation : The Gethsemani Talks

The Benedictine Priory of Mont

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Word into Silence

The Joy of Being: Daily Readings with John Main (Modern Spirituality Series)

The Heart of Creation

Silence and Stillness in Every Season

Word into Silence

John Main (The Modern Spirituality Series)

Christian Meditation : The Gethsemani Talks