The Practice Of The Presence Of God, by Brother Lawrence
One of the things that one learns as a reader of books of Christian mysticism [1] is that the best of these books are often in a conversation with other books on the same subject that are similarly viewed as classics. For example, Brother Lawrence was himself a humble monk in a French monastery who would be largely unknown to history if his letters and maxims and eulogies from some of his friends had not been collected in a volume that ended up inspiring many generations of later mystics who sought the peace that comes from feeling one is in a close personal relationship with God. However, the particular monastery that Brother Lawrence was a part of was a very conservative one that followed the example of previous devout Catholic mystics Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross, who…
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