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WHY I AM WRITING THIS BOOK

I am a man born between ages, moving between cultures, seeing
between religions, but also happily a Christian. I love what
I see: life excites me. Yet I know there is still so much more to
see and hear, so much more to know and do. This seeing is
also painful, and there are things I wish I did not see, or did
not know. Read more… (pdf)

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THE NAKED NOW - CONTENTS

Preface:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

PART ONE
I) The Gift Is Already Given . . . . 17

When You Surrender to Fear and Distraction, 19 | When You Joyfully
Surrender to God, 20 | Discover Your Birthright, 22 | Prayer —Practicing Heaven Now, 25

II) The Great Unsaying . . . . . . .27

III) 3 Ways to View the Sunset . .30

The Urgent Need for Contemplative Seeing, 31 | What It Means to Be a Mystic, 33  Read more…

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Fr Richard speaks about The Naked Now
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"Each page of this book echoes with the liberating surprise that the ancient wisdom embodied in everything Jesus said and did is found in the simplicity of our own awakened heart, in which we discover that we and God and all things are one. "

— James Finley, author of Merton's Palace of Nowhere
and Christian Meditation

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