Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
About This Book
Rohr argues that the contemplative tradition's greatest gift is the capacity to receive all of reality — including the painful, the broken, and the contradictory — as belonging within the whole. Rather than the dualistic religion that separates the sacred from the profane, Rohr offers a mystical Christianity in which God is found precisely in what we most want to exclude, and in which prayer is less about asking than about learning to see.
What You'll Learn
Contemplative prayer trains the practitioner to hold paradox — the capacity to stay with unresolved tension rather than forcing resolution — which is the beginning of genuine wisdom. The shadow (what we reject in ourselves and project onto others) is the dark door through which most people enter genuine spirituality. Everything belongs — the darkest experiences are not signs of divine abandonment but of divine proximity.
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