Status Updates From Word into Silence

One of the recurrect themes of Cassian is the absolute importance of personal verification. We must know for ourselves in the depth of our own being. We must perform rather than teach, be rather than do. Above all, we must be fully awake to the wonder and beauty of our being.

Religious people have so often pretended to have all the answers. They have seen their mission to persuade, to enforce, to level differences and perhaps even to impose uniformity ... But when religion begins to bully or to insinuate, it has become unspiritual because the first gift of the Spirit, creatively moving in human nature, is freedom and frankness; in biblical language, liberty and truth.

Simple but so rewarding and not so simple after all. Suggest to all those trying to combine meditation and christianity.

Been looking for this book so long - happy that we finally meet.