These reflections on contemplative life were delivered at Harvard University in 1998.

The author says, “The regular practice of contemplative prayer initiates a healing process that might be called ‘the divine therapy.’” This work is an outline and explanation of the stages of this process.

A collection of nine treatises intended to serve as a meditation guide by the sixteenth-century German mystic.

The author traces the development of the Jesus Prayer from Byzantium through the Slav lands, concluding with practical suggestions for its use today.

The author explains from his own experience how relating to Jesus Christ and his teaching, combined with meditation, can illuminate spiritual life.

This seventh century work was the most widely used handbook of the ascetic life in the ancient Greek Church. The ascetic life is portrayed as a ladder which each aspirant must ascend, each step being a virtue to be acquired or a vice to be surrendered.

Four of Ruusbroec’s most influential writings, offering a contemporary rendering of his brilliant discourses on spiritual life.