Befriending Our Desires
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0232524467 / Publisher: Darton Longman & Todd Ltd, January 2002
Argues that 'desire' should be placed at the centre of the spiritual life: the concrete reality of passion has always been linked to the human search for the divine.
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In this book, Philip Sheldrake invites the reader to reflect on the nature of sexuality and human desire and to discover their relationship to prayer and spiritual growth. This is a revised version of his innovative exploration of sexuality and human desire and their place in spirituality, which was first released in 1994.As Sheldrake points out, sexual desire can be a spiritual experience. Indeed, he argues convincingly that learning to deal with our desires is essential to our spiritual development, for "desire", "yearning" and "longing" are inseparable from the search for God. In Befriending our Desires Sheldrake explains how discovering and integrating our deepest desires can help reveal a deeper understanding not only of ourselves but also of God.
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