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- 2009021178 contributor B11418179.
- 2009021178 created "2009.".
- 2009021178 date "2009".
- 2009021178 date "2009.".
- 2009021178 dateCopyrighted "2009.".
- 2009021178 description "Foreword / by Robert Benson -- Introduction -- Prayer -- Preface -- Four degrees of Christian living -- Spiritual preparation -- A superior discipline -- Knowledge and imagination -- The cloud of forgetting -- A brief dialogue -- Intellectual curiosity -- Regarding uncertainties -- Contemplative prayer -- Discernment -- Evaluating thoughts -- Results of contemplation -- Perfect and imperfect humility -- Begin with imperfect humility -- Understanding humility -- Contemplative humility -- A critical world -- Ignorance -- Complaining -- God responds -- The text -- Love and contemplation -- God's spiritual provision -- Contemplative love -- Details -- When difficult prayer becomes possible -- Who should attempt contemplation? -- Begin by seeking forgiveness -- Endurance -- Critics -- Beginners and temptation -- Spiritual devices -- Perfect rest -- God's gift -- Reading, reflection, and prayer -- Meditation -- Special prayers -- Why short prayers pierce heaven -- The nature of prayer -- Forgetting virtue and vice -- Contemplation and indiscretion -- Indiscretion produces discretion -- Forgetting the self -- Suppressing the self -- Spiritual illusions -- Spiritual enthusiasm -- Approaching god -- Physical aspects of prayer -- Essence of perfection -- Pure love -- Misinterpretation -- Beginners' mistakes -- Outward behavior -- Controlling the body -- Condemning others -- Common sense and common doctrine -- Presumptuous beginners -- Forcing imagination -- Time, place, and prayer -- Desire -- Spirit and flesh -- Understanding spiritual activity -- Mind -- Reason and will -- Imagination -- Sensuality -- The spiritual way -- Nowhere is everywhere -- Nothingness and love -- Comprehending God -- Variety of experience -- Differences -- Contributions -- Recognition -- Certainty.".
- 2009021178 extent "xvi, 124 p. ;".
- 2009021178 identifier "9781557256690".
- 2009021178 isPartOf "Paraclete Essentials edition".
- 2009021178 issued "2009".
- 2009021178 issued "2009.".
- 2009021178 language "eng".
- 2009021178 publisher "Brewster, Mass. : Paraclete Press,".
- 2009021178 subject "248.2/2 22".
- 2009021178 subject "BV5082.3 .B36 2009".
- 2009021178 subject "Mysticism.".
- 2009021178 tableOfContents "Foreword / by Robert Benson -- Introduction -- Prayer -- Preface -- Four degrees of Christian living -- Spiritual preparation -- A superior discipline -- Knowledge and imagination -- The cloud of forgetting -- A brief dialogue -- Intellectual curiosity -- Regarding uncertainties -- Contemplative prayer -- Discernment -- Evaluating thoughts -- Results of contemplation -- Perfect and imperfect humility -- Begin with imperfect humility -- Understanding humility -- Contemplative humility -- A critical world -- Ignorance -- Complaining -- God responds -- The text -- Love and contemplation -- God's spiritual provision -- Contemplative love -- Details -- When difficult prayer becomes possible -- Who should attempt contemplation? -- Begin by seeking forgiveness -- Endurance -- Critics -- Beginners and temptation -- Spiritual devices -- Perfect rest -- God's gift -- Reading, reflection, and prayer -- Meditation -- Special prayers -- Why short prayers pierce heaven -- The nature of prayer -- Forgetting virtue and vice -- Contemplation and indiscretion -- Indiscretion produces discretion -- Forgetting the self -- Suppressing the self -- Spiritual illusions -- Spiritual enthusiasm -- Approaching god -- Physical aspects of prayer -- Essence of perfection -- Pure love -- Misinterpretation -- Beginners' mistakes -- Outward behavior -- Controlling the body -- Condemning others -- Common sense and common doctrine -- Presumptuous beginners -- Forcing imagination -- Time, place, and prayer -- Desire -- Spirit and flesh -- Understanding spiritual activity -- Mind -- Reason and will -- Imagination -- Sensuality -- The spiritual way -- Nowhere is everywhere -- Nothingness and love -- Comprehending God -- Variety of experience -- Differences -- Contributions -- Recognition -- Certainty.".
- 2009021178 title "The cloud of unknowing / edited and modernized by Bernard Bangley.".
- 2009021178 type "text".