Open Mind, Open Heart 20th Anniversary Edition

Thomas Keating was a Cistercian monk who founded the worldwide 'Contemplative Outreach', teaching people the art of meditation.
This is the 20th anniversary edition of Continuum's best-selling spiritual classic, which has sold over half a million in the English language and has appeared in 10 foreign-language editions.
This book is designed to initiate the reader into a deep, living relationship with God. Written by an acknowledged spiritual master, the book moves beyond "discursive meditation and particular acts to the intuitive level of contemplation." Keating gives an overview of the history of contemplative prayer in the Christian tradition, and step-by-step guidance in the method of centering prayer. Special attention is paid to the role of the Sacred Word, Christian growth and transformation, and active prayer. The book ends with an explicit treatment of the contemplative dimension of the gospel. Open Mind, Open Heart will take readers into a world where God can do anything, into a realm of the greatest adventure - "Where one is open to the Infinite and hence to infinite possibilities."
This is the 20th anniversary edition of Continuum's bestselling spiritual classic, which has sold over half a million in the English language and has appeared in 10 foreign-language editions (Croatian, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesia, Italian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese). The new edition consists of a substantial new preface, an expanded glossary, some changes in terminology, and a reordering of several chapters.

Father Thomas Keating was known throughout the world as an exponent, teacher, and writer on contemplative prayer. A Cistercian (Trappist) monk of St. Benedict's Monastery, Snowmass, Colorado, he was a founder of the Centering Prayer Movement and of Contemplative Outreach. He authored numerous books, particularly of the trilogy Open Mind, Open Heart; Invitation to Love; and The Mystery of Christ. Among his books is The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living, compiled by S. Stephanie Iachetta.

1. The History of Contemplative Prayer in the Christian Tradition
2. First Steps in Centering Prayer
3. The Sacred Word as Symbol
4. The Wanderings of the Imagination
5. The Birth of Spiritual Attentiveness
6. More Subtle Kinds of Thought
7. Unloading the Unconscious
8. Summary of the Centering Prayer Method
9. The Intensive Centering Prayer Experience
10. What Contemplation Is Not
11. Dimensions of Contemplative Prayer
12. Methods of Extending the Effects of Centering Prayer into Daily Life
13. Guidelines for Christian Life, Growth and Transformation
Appendices