The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain SpiritualityOxford University Press, 1998 - 282 頁 In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within." It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the "false self" that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might "make some desert" in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a "performance" of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition. |
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Connecting Spirituality and the Environment | 9 |
Places on the Edge Wild Terrain and the Spiritual Life | 37 |
Prayer Without Language in the Mystical Tradition Knowing | 62 |
Illumination Waiting in a Silence Beyond Language | 87 |
MYTHIC LANDSCAPE Dragons of the Ordinary The Discomfort | 93 |
The Sinai Image in the History of Western Monotheism | 107 |
Sinai and Tabor Mountain Symbolism in the Christian Tradition | 124 |
Union Love as the Fruit of Indifference | 149 |
MYTHIC LANDSCAPE Transformation at Upper Moss Creek | 155 |
Attentiveness Indifference and Love The Countercultural Spiritu | 186 |
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