The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See
Subtitle: learning to see as the mystics see
By: Richard Rohr
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780824525439
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Why I am writing this book; title: The gift is already given; title: When you surrender to fear and distraction; title: When you joyfully surrender to God; title: Discover your birthright; title: Prayer-practicing heaven now; title: The great unsaying; title: Three ways to view the sunset; title: The urgent need for contemplative seeing; title: What it means to be a mystic; title: We should have known better; title: Knowing worse: all-or-nothing thinking; title: Knowing better: contemplation and presence; title: Mystical Christianity: a critique from within; title: A lesson from the monks; title: The limitations of individualism; title: A debate everyone can win; title: Glimpses of wonder: the quest is begun; title: But we have to make judgments, don't we?; title: We see what we are ready to see; title: The radical perceptual shift: is it true?; title: Yes, but; title: Not many things, but one thing; title: Getting thrown off your horse: sudden conversion; title: Gradual conversion; title: How Martha becomes Mary: willfulness and willingness; title: What about Jesus?; title: The prayer of Jesus; title: Not here, not there; title: The two heels of a Christian achilles; title: Conversion: begin by changing the seer; title: Healing the observer; title: Three levels of conversion; title: Change your mind; title: The ego hates change; title: Different religions, same ego resistance; title: Inertia resists change; title: Heaven and hell: you must change again and again; title: Things too good to be true: from polarity thinking to prayer; title: Reframing false dilemmas; title: Alternative consciousness; title: Prayer is resonance; title: Experience impossible and improbable things; title: The lost tradition; title: The decline of contemplation; title: More recent rediscoveries; title: Faith is more how to believe than what to believe; title: Opening the door: great love and great suffering; title: What nondual thinking is not; title: The watchful gaze: what do we mean by being awake?; title: The meaning of spiritual love; title: Sinners, mystics, and astrophysicists: how to celebrate paradox; title: The value of paradox; title: Greek logic; title: Trinity; title: Physics and astrophysics; title: What it means to follow Jesus; title: What every good leader knows; title: The principle of likeness: in the end, it all comes down to this.