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With the clarity and depth characteristic of the classics, this spiritual bestseller lays out a perceptive and insightful plan for living a spiritual life and achieving the ultimate goal of that life -- union with God. Nouwen views our spiritual "ascent" as evolving in three movements. The first, from loneliness to solitude, focuses on the spiritual life as it relates to the experience of our own selves. The second, from hostility to hospitality, deals with our spiritual life as a life for others. The final movement, from illusion to prayer, offers penetrating thoughts on the most mysterious relationship of all: our relationship to God. Throughout, Nouwen emphasizes that the more we understand (and not simply deny) our inner struggles, the more fully we will be able to embrace a prayerful and genuine life that is also open to others' needs. Reaching Out is a rich book to be read, reread, pondered, and shared with others. "It does not offer answers or solutions," Nouwen cautions, "but is written in the conviction that the quest for an authentic Christian spirituality is worth the effort and the pain, since in the midst of this quest we can find signs offering hope, courage, and confidence." Book jacket.

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• Foreword
• Introduction
• Reaching Out to Our Innermost Self: The First Movement: From Loneliness to Solitude(p. 21)
• Chapter 1 A Suffocating Loneliness(p. 23)
• Chapter 2 A Receptive Solitude(p. 37)
• Chapter 3 A Creative Response(p. 49)
• Reaching Out to Our Fellow Human Beings: The Second Movement: From Hostility to Hospitality(p. 63)
• Chapter 4 Creating Space for Strangers(p. 65)
• Chapter 5 Forms of Hospitality(p. 79)
• Chapter 6 Hospitality and the Host(p. 101)
• Reaching Out to Our God: The Third Movement: From Illusion to Prayer(p. 111)
• Chapter 7 Prayer and Mortality(p. 113)
• Chapter 8 The Prayer of the Heart(p. 133)
• Chapter 9 Community and Prayer(p. 149)
• Conclusion(p. 161)
• Notes(p. 163)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

He was born in the Netherlands in 1932. An ordained priest and gifted teacher, he taught at several universities including Notre Dame, Harvard and Yale. He was a missionary in Peru. He died of a heart attack in 1996.

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