For people drawn to a life of contemplation, the dawning of
luminous awareness in a mind full of clutter is deeply liberating.
In the third of his best-selling books on Christian contemplative
life, Martin Laird turns his attention to those who are well
settled in their contemplative practice. An Ocean of Light speaks
both to those just entering the contemplative path and to those
with a maturing practice of contemplation. Gradually, the practice
of contemplation lifts the soul, freeing it from the blockages that
introduce confusion into our identity and thus confusion about the
mystery we call God. In the course of a lifetime of inner
silencing, the flower of awareness emerges: a living realization
that we have never been separate from God or from the rest of
humanity while we each fully become what each of us is created to
be. In contemplation we become so silent before God that the
"before" drops away. Those whose lives have led them deeply into
the silent land realize this, but not in the way that we realize
that the square root of 144 is 12. Laird draws from a wide and
diverse range of writers-from St. Augustine, Evagrius Ponticus, and
St. Teresa of Avila to David Foster Wallace, Flannery O'Connor,
Virginia Woolf, and Franz Wright-to ground his insight in an
ancient practice and give it a voice in contemporary language. With
his characteristic lyricism and gentleness, Laird guides readers
through new challenges of contemplative life, such as making
ourselves the focus of our own contemplative project; dealing with
old pain; transforming the isolation of loneliness and depression
into a liberating solidarity with all who suffer; and the danger of
using a spiritual practice as a strategy to acquire and control.
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