Spirituality an Art of Living A Monk`s Alphabet of Spiritual Practices

includes index and biblioraphy

A Abba ............3 Adoration ............5 Anawim: The poor and the Humble ...............7 Aspiration ............10 B Beginning ..........13 Blessing ..........15 Breathing ........17 C Chastity .............23 Confession of Sins........25 Conversation ..........30 Culture ...............32 D Dancing ........35 Death .........36 Detachment ...............41 Dhikr ..............43 Dialogue .......45 Dreaming ............47 E Eating ........59 Ejaculatory prayers ...........62 Emptiness........67 F Fasting ......73 Fear of the lord ........80 Fight .....90 Forgiveness, Reconciliation .............93 Forms and Formlessness........101 Friendship ..103 Fruitfulness............108 G God ....113 Gratitude ..........115 Growing ...........120 H Hallowing ..........125 Heart .............129 Hospitality ............134 Humility ......141 I Icons .....149 Intercessory prayers .............152 J Jesus and the Jesus prayer ...............159 Jubilee, Jubilation ........164 Judge ........169 K Keeping Silent ..........175 L Lament, Lamenting ...........179 Lectio divina or Scripture reading .........181 Listening ............188 M Mary, marian Spirituality ...........203 Measure and beyond measure .....205 Meditation .............207 Memory ............215 Mercy ...........224 Mindfulness........229 Mourning .......231 Music ............234 N Name, to Name ..........239 Night vigil .......245 O One, The One ....................253 P Paradox..........257 Patience ........264 Peace ............268 Pilgrimage .........272 Poustinia ..............278 Praise, to praise .............282 Profession of Faith ...............284 Psalmody .............287 QQuest ...........293 R Reciprocity .........297 Resurrection ...........299 Retreat ..........306 Rituals .........308 S Sabbath .....313 Sacrament.............317 Salmon, or Mocking gravity .........319 Serving .........320 Sexuality ..............324 Simplicity .............326 Sleeping ...............329 Smiling .......333 Solidarity ..........335 source ........337 Spirit ........339 Strategy ............342 Sunday ..........345 T Tears .........353 Time and the Experience of Time .......355 Tsimtsum .............357 U Unapparent virtue ............361 V Visiting .............367 Vulnerability ........269 W Walking .......373 Weeping .........375 Wisdom ...........377 Wonder...........383 Wu Wei................385 X X.................393 Y Yes-Amen ................397 Yin and Yang ............399 You as You.............402 Z Zero ...............407