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'The practice of contemplation is one of the great spiritual arts,'writes Martin Laird in A Sunlit Absence.'Not a technique but a skill, it harnesses the winds of grace that lead us out into the liberating sea of silence.'In this companion volume to his bestselling Into the Silent Land, Laird focuses on a quality often overlooked by books on Christian meditation: a vast and flowing spaciousness that embraces both silence and sound, and transcends all subject/object dualisms. Drawing on the wisdom of great contemplatives from St. Augustine and St. Teresa of Avila to St. Hesychios, Simone Weil, and many others, Laird shows how we can uncover the deeper levels of awareness that rest within us like buried treasure waiting to be found. The key insight of the book is that as our practice matures, so will our experience of life's ordeals, sorrows, and joys expand into generous, receptive maturity. We learn to see whatever difficulties we experience in meditation--boredom, lethargy, arrogance, depression, grief, anxiety--not as obstacles to be overcome but as opportunities to practice surrender to what is. With clarity and grace Laird shows how we can move away from identifying with our tu

Who reads A Sunlit Absence : Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation?

Author

Martin Laird

Publisher

Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195378726

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Christian, Religion, Fiction

Rating

4.32 / 5 (112 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14