
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Precis
- Preface: Contemplation and COVID
- Acknowledgments—Thomas Merton and Others
- Introduction
- Sources Employed in Sessions
- Contemplation (Meditation) Sessions
- Session 1
- Session 2
- Session 3
- Session 4
- Session 5
- Session 6
- Session 7
- Session 8
- Session 9
- Session 10
- Session 11
- Session 12
- Session 13
- Session 14
- Session 15
- Session 16
- Session 17
- Session 18
- Session 19
- Session 20
- Session 21
- Session 22
- Session 23
- Session 24
- Session 25
- Session 26
- Session 27
- Session 28
- Session 29
- Session 30
- Session 31
- Session 32
- Session 33
- Session 34
- Session 35
- Session 36
- Session 37
- Session 38
- Session 39
- Session 40
- Session 41
- Session 42
- Session 43
- Session 44
- Session 45
- Session 46
- Session 47
- Session 48
- Session 49
- Session 50
- Session 51
- Session 52
- Session 53
- Session 54
- Session 55
- Session 56
- Session 57
- Session 58
- Session 59
- Session 60
- Session 61
- Session 62
- Session 63
- Session 64
- Session 65
- Session 66
- Session 67
- Session 68
- Session 69
- Session 70
- Session 71
- Session 72
- Bibliography