The Ways of the Mystic: Seven Paths to God
About This Book
An exploration of the contemplative heart of the world's great spiritual traditions — covering seven ways of approaching the divine that appear consistently across different religious cultures: the ways of the heart, the mind, the body, nature, service, community, and creative expression. Borysenko presents each way through the voice of its specific tradition — Sufi poetry for the heart, Christian contemplation for the mind, Buddhist body practice, indigenous nature spirituality, Christian charity, sangha traditions, and sacred art — creating a rich introduction to the diversity of the contemplative life.
What You'll Learn
The contemplative traditions of the world — however different their outer forms — all arrive at the same experiential destination: the direct recognition of the divine presence that is both within and beyond the individual self. Service — genuinely motivated by love rather than by duty or the need for recognition — is recognized across all traditions as both a consequence of genuine spiritual development and one of its most reliable accelerators. The creative impulse — the drive to bring something new into existence through music, art, writing, or craft — is a genuine spiritual impulse: it is the expression of the divine creative intelligence working through a human instrument that has made itself available as a channel.
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