An Invincible Summer Within: Contemplation Practice
Ebook
An Invincible Summer Within is a book of sessions of contemplation (meditation) practice. It is for anyone who wants to be happy and good, for beginners or "experts," religious believers or secular humanists. It is for young adults (the pious and the "nones") and adults, for professors, students, campus ministers, dancers, carpenters, lawyers, plumbers, teachers, corporate workers--all who seek to be happy and good. It is for use alone or in circles of contemplation (meditation) practice. To be happy and good, a person needs to acquire (slowly, patiently, gently) over the course of their lives the skill set of regular access to their inner lives, where their true (distinct from false) self resides in a great landscape of stillness, simplicity, and presence--listening, awake, mindful. This regular access is encounter with a Source within us which mitigates fear, regret, anxiety, anger, pain, chaos, and resentment. This book provides practice achieving this regular access.
“Padraic O’Hare’s invitation to an invincible summer is gently
irresistible, making available the vast wisdom of the human
inwardness that alone points the way to genuine communion. O’Hare
is a guide worth trusting, following, and sitting with. His book is
both wonderfully practical and deeply mystical. The world’s most
sacred words are here, but so is the holy silence to which they
open.”
—James Carroll, author of The Truth at the Heart of the
Lie
“An Invincible Summer Within offers the fruits of a lifetime
of wise meditation told to us and experienced in many years of
practice. A host of spiritual masters hover around this book
. . . but most important for O’Hare is the larger
community of women and men with whom he has ministered and
meditated for so long and so faithfully. This is a rare how-to book
that is grounded in deep wisdom that never rests short of the
practice.”
—Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Harvard Divinity School
“In this welcome collection of guided meditations, Padraic O’Hare
offers a path of joyful freedom marked by stillness, simplicity,
and attention. Refined over thirty years of teaching meditation to
young and old from a diversity of religious backgrounds, O’Hare’s
invitation to a deeper engagement with the world around us and
within us is a welcome resource in these uncertain times.”
—Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard Divinity School
- Title: An Invincible Summer Within: Contemplation Practice
- Author: Padraic O'Hare
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666722444, 9781666722437, 9781666730654, 1666722448, 166672243X, 1666730653
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666722444
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-22T05:50:30Z
Padraic O’Hare is professor emeritus of religious and theological studies at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He is the author and editor of eight books, including two prior works on contemplation (meditation) practice: The Way of Faithfulness: Contemplation and Formation in the Church (1993) and Busy Life, Peaceful Center: A Book of Meditating (1995). The 1993 work received First Prize as Best Book in Catholic Education of the Catholic Press Association for l995. His other books deal with religious education, social justice, and Jewish-Christian relations.