Befriending Our Desires

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by Philip Sheldrake

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Desire is at the heart of what it is to be human. The power of desire, while embodied and sensuous, is God-given and the key to all human spirituality. Humanity is blessed with a deep longing that is inﬁ nite in extent and can ultimately be satisﬁ ed only in God. This thoroughly revised edition of Befriending Our Desires portrays the intimate connection between desire and the spiritual journey. Drawing on Hebrew and Christian Scriptures, Christian spiritual classics (with some reference to Buddhist spirituality), poetry, and other literature, plus personal and pastoral experience, Philip Sheldrake explores the role of desire in relation to God, prayer, sexuality, making choices, and responding to change.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814647170

ISBN13:9780814647172

Release Date:September 2016

Publisher:Liturgical Press

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.3" x 8.1"

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This book has changed the way I pray. Step by step it has been leading me through a process of discovering what it is I really want - and the wanting beneath the wanting. What is holy and of God is not remote, but close, very close, and part of that wanting. The blurbs on the back of the original hardcover dust cover are far more eloquent; even better, they're true. "Magnificently articulates a God and a spirituality characterized by passion desire, vulnerability and eros." " ..helps us to understand...that or desires are not enemies but friends of spiritual life."