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The Only Mind Worth Having - Thomas Merton and the Child Mind (Paperback)
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The Only Mind Worth Having - Thomas Merton and the Child Mind (Paperback)
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In The Only Mind Worth Having, Fiona Gardner takes Thomas Merton's
belief that the child mind is "the only mind worth having" and
explores it in the context of Jesus' challenging, paradoxical, and
enigmatic command to become like small children. She demonstrates
how Merton's belief and Jesus' command can be understood as part of
contemporary spirituality and spiritual practice. To follow
Christ's command requires a great leap of the imagination. Gardner
examines what it might mean to make this leap when one is an adult
without it becoming sentimental and mawkish, or regressive and
pathological. Using both psychological and spiritual insights, and
drawing on the experiences of Thomas Merton and others, Gardner
suggests that in some mysterious and paradoxical way recovering a
sense of childhood spirituality is the path towards spiritual
maturity. The move from childhood spirituality to adulthood and on
to a spiritual maturity through the child mind is a move from
innocence to experience to organised innocence, or from dependence
to independence to a state of being in-dependence with God.
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