Ade Bailey鈥檚 'reference' books on 欧宝娱乐 (6 books)

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Finding Sanctuary: Monastic Steps for Everyday Life

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Jamison, Christopher

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0753821494

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9780753821497

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0753821494

num pages

182 pp

avg rating

4.12

num ratings

641

date pub

2006

date pub edition

2007

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it was amazing

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Came my way accidentally. I'd put it onto an amazon order before Christmas as a present for someone who liked the Abbot's words, but I found her a sig Came my way accidentally. I'd put it onto an amazon order before Christmas as a present for someone who liked the Abbot's words, but I found her a signed copy in a local bookshop. So I got it along with my first January order from amazon since I had not deleted the order list. I like it. I saw the TV series, and have a soft spot for Abbots and monasteries. Seven steps to sanctuary. But I fall at the first which is being nice to everyone all the time, and I kind of resent the routine and somewhat snidey attacks on popular culture, and poor people as being somehow ungodly. On the other hand, if I were to get myself into order and actually resist the currents of distracting excitements and denials that claim me, I would, will, doubtless possibly, yes, "doubtless possibly", find this a glorious and wise book. The implication is that it will end up on the shelf, or in its little place for occasional convenient spiritual visits (convenient, in that they incur no more or less importance than other items from an interesting catalogue of life), and the views I may have on the book are less important than really the mind that holds the views. But goodreads is no forum for such. In hope, I do like Abbot Christopher.

Now finished, though this is a book to return to. What I particularly found heartening, encouraging and maybe life changing was that I have for such a long time been upset by pick and mix new ageism, self-centred consumer guides to 'spiritual' comfort, the exploded array of bricolage that is on an ever growing rubbish heap of those who have plundered bits and pieces of the great religions, made religion an enemy of spiritualism, supported full on the ideology of atomised selfseeking consumerism. That I witness this among some of the professed, the ordained and the church leaders breaks my heart.

I am still a very confused person, but a book like this, read slowly, cannot be simply one of many objects put on a shelf or in a cupboard, reduced eventually to another torn fragment of a desecrated tapestry. The call is for a whole life involvement (not a holistic this, that or the other cd from amazon), being, stabilised, centred commitment, sacrifice. Did you know that sacrifice has the root of sacred, the making holy, whole, healing? It is a call from the gravity of selfishness to sharing and binding and community (that poor, poor word that has been so violated). There are no private compartments on the way to salvation, the Abbot says. the book is a resource and guide with hope at its heart. ...more

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Feb 05, 2009

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