Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer
This popular and bestselling book of the renowned Franciscan challenges people to move beyond the comfort of a settled life toward an understanding of themselves that is rooted in their connection to God. Only when they rest in God can they find the certainty and the freedom to become all that they can be. Contemplation has its place at the heart of Christianity, a place that allows people to experience how “everything belongs.”
Search in google:
This book has been revised and expanded with a fresh cover, study guide, re-edited text, new material, and a gift-market layout.
You cannot earn God. You cannot prove yourself worthy to God. It is simply a matter of awareness. Of enjoying the awareness. Coming to the awareness. There are moments when we believe it. Then it all makes sense. Once I can see it here and trust it, in this piece of clay, at this moment in time that I am - then the compliment is also passed on to you. I am able to see the divine image both in myself and in you and finally in all things. Finally the seeing is one. How you see anything is how you will see everything.
1.Center and Circumference132.Vision of Enchantment283.Ego and Soul604.Cleansing the Lens935.Don't Push the River1226.Return to the Sacred154Coda and Conclusion: A Contemplative Seeing of the Doctrine of the Cross177Guide for Reflection183
