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100	1		_aRohr, Richard.
245	1	4	_aThe Naked Now : _bLearning to See As The Mystics See / _cRichard Rohr.
260			_aNew York : _bCrossroad Publishing Co., _cc2009.
300			_a187 p.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aWhy I am writing this book -- The gift is already given -- When you surrender to fear and distraction -- When you joyfully surrender to God -- Discover your birthright -- Prayer-practicing heaven now -- The great unsaying -- Three ways to view the sunset -- The urgent need for contemplative seeing -- What it means to be a mystic -- We should have known better -- Knowing worse: all-or-nothing thinking -- Knowing better: contemplation and presence -- Mystical Christianity: a critique from within -- A lesson from the monks -- The limitations of individualism -- A debate everyone can win -- Glimpses of wonder: the quest is begun -- But we have to make judgments, don't we? -- We see what we are ready to see -- The radical perceptual shift: is it true? -- Yes, but -- Not many things, but one thing -- Getting thrown off your horse: sudden conversion -- Gradual conversion -- How Martha becomes Mary: willfulness and willingness -- What about Jesus? -- The prayer of Jesus -- Not here, not there -- The two heels of a Christian achilles -- Conversion: begin by changing the seer -- Healing the observer -- Three levels of conversion -- Change your mind -- The ego hates change -- Different religions, same ego resistance -- Inertia resists change -- Heaven and hell: you must change again and again -- Things too good to be true: from polarity thinking to prayer -- Reframing false dilemmas -- Alternative consciousness -- Prayer is resonance -- Experience impossible and improbable things -- The lost tradition -- The decline of contemplation -- More recent rediscoveries -- Faith is more how to believe than what to believe -- Opening the door: great love and great suffering -- What nondual thinking is not -- The watchful gaze: what do we mean by being awake? -- The meaning of spiritual love -- Sinners, mystics, and astrophysicists: how to celebrate paradox -- The value of paradox -- Greek logic -- Trinity -- Physics and astrophysics -- What it means to follow Jesus -- What every good leader knows -- The principle of likeness: in the end, it all comes down to this.
650		0	_aMysticism.
650		0	_aSpiritual life
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