Pilgrimage of a Soul: Contemplative Spirituality for the Active Life
By Phileena Heuertz and Shauna Niequist
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You can only go so far for so long before you find the limits of yourself. For Phileena Heuertz that moment arrived, mercifully, around the same time as a sabbatical to mark her twelfth year of service with an international organization working with some of the most vulnerable people in the world. Activists often see contemplation as a luxury, the sort of thing necessarily set aside in the quest to see the world set aright. But in Pilgrimage of a Soul we see that contemplation is essential—not only to a life of sustained commitment to the justice and righteousness of God, but to the fully human life that the Holy Spirit beckons each of us to. Tracing seven movements from a kind of sleepfulness to a kind of wakefulness, Phileena shows us that life is a journey that repeats itself as Christ leads us deeper and deeper into our true selves and a truer knowledge of God. This revised edition includes practices with each chapter, as well as questions for group discussion and individual reflection.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An excellent read for anyone who is longing for a journey of self-realization in Christ and finding out their place of divine feminism. Since I was not able to relate to many aspects of the book, it did not speak to me in a way to garner 5 stars, but am sure others would greatly benefit from it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book can change lives. It is deeply experienced and beautifully written. Perhaps best of all for a book on contemplative spirituality, it is grounded in Scripture, Tradition, community, action, and experience in contemplative disciplines. I think it would be particularly powerful for women, and there are four or five I want to recommend it to (or buy it for).