Mind the Light: Slearning to See With Spiritual Eyes

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-09-01
Publisher(s): Paraclete Pr
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Summary

Have you ever noticed how sunflowers track with the sunlight throughout the summer? That's not unusual, explains Brent Bill. All of God's creation moves toward the Light ? flowers, trees, even human beings. Light sets a Midwestern sunset apart from a western desert sunset, a Goya portrait from a John Singer Sargent portrait, a joyful spirit from a mournful one. Light is all around ? and within ? us. We can?t live without it. This profound little book invites readers to see both their inner and outer lives with spiritual ?eyes.? To ?mind the light? is a Quaker practice of learning to see God's light both around and inside us. Depending on its strength, tone, and slant ? light changes how we perceive the world and other people. Depending on how we respond to it, illumination can help us grow in appreciation of the soulful things of life. Minding the Light invites readers of all backgrounds to explore the connectedness between inner vision and outer perception, between the life of the

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(4)
Minding the Light The Spirituality of Seeing
5(20)
The Light Around Us Seeing Creation
25(20)
The Light Within Seeing Ourselves
45(25)
The Light Without Seeing Others
70(16)
Incandescence, Fluorescence, and Flashlights Artificial Light and the Life of the Spirit
86(18)
Light for the Journey Seeing Our Path to God
104(27)
Acknowledgments 131(2)
Illuminating Moments
Further Exercises in Seeing 133(2)
More Light
Some Resources for Minding the Light 135(4)
Notes 139

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