A Little Book of Unknowing
Published on 27. March 2015
73 pages
978-1-78279-947-4 (ISBN)
Description
What if the facts on which we base our lives are shown to be unreliable? What if our expectations are confounded? What if we let go of those assumptions and expectations? What if we let go of our familiar, habitual ways of thinking? What if we let go of the very need to know? Unknowing is at the centre of spiritual life. It is only by creating a space in which anything can happen that we allow God to speak; only by stepping back that we allow space for that unpredictable Spirit that brings us gifts beyond any of our imaginings... "God dwells only where man steps back to give him room."
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Collective Ink
File size
1,74 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78279-947-4 (9781782799474)
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Jennifer Kavanagh
Little Book of Unknowing, A
Book
03/2015
John Hunt Publishing
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Person
Jennifer Kavanagh gave up her career as a literary agent to work in the community. She is a microcredit practitioner, facilitates conflict resolution workshops and is active in the Quaker community. She has published six books of non-fiction. In 2015 John Hunt will publish A Little Book of Unknowing, and her first novel The Emancipation of B.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The need to know
- 3. Expectation
- 4. Not knowing
- 5. Another way of knowing
- 6. Another way of living
- 7. The creative spirit
- 8. Practice
- 9. Reclaiming the dark
- 10. Acceptance
- 11. The Cloud of Unknowing
- Further Reading and Resources
