Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual LifeIn this newly revised English translation from the French, including a comprehensive glossary, this volume surveys the enormous range of Schuon's writngs on prayer and spiritual life. |
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... concerns were always of an opera- tive or maieutic order , as he sought to lead readers , not simply to a deeper understanding of the religious traditions , but to a more lucid discernment of the presence of God in their lives . Never ...
... concerns were always of an opera- tive or maieutic order , as he sought to lead readers , not simply to a deeper understanding of the religious traditions , but to a more lucid discernment of the presence of God in their lives . Never ...
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... concerns , and reasons for thanksgiving , all one's own . Schuon often pointed to the Psalms as models for the personal dimension of prayer , and he frequently stressed its fundamental importance in the spiritual life , strongly ...
... concerns , and reasons for thanksgiving , all one's own . Schuon often pointed to the Psalms as models for the personal dimension of prayer , and he frequently stressed its fundamental importance in the spiritual life , strongly ...
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Contents
Dimensions of Prayer | 1 |
Fundamental Keys | 13 |
Prayer and the Integration of the Psychic Elements | 29 |
Modes of Prayer | 57 |
1 | 71 |
Spiritual Perspectives IV | 77 |
Trials and Happiness | 89 |
Spiritual Perspectives V | 95 |
Dimensions of the Human Vocation | 119 |
Common terms and phrases
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