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Contemplative Prayer is an entirely different approach to God and prayer. It is based on God speaking to us. All the techniques of this prayer focus on learning to 'listen' to the Silence of God. It is a direct and intimate route to the Divine, and a turbo-charged path to personal transformation. This book is finding its way into the hands of prisoners and their families all over the world. Its simple methods are readily learnable. It resonates with our deeply held, often repressed, notions of how God must be in our lives. As such it is in attunement to the experiences of suffering for many prisoners, particularly for those who live in solitary confinement. For reasons known only to God, the suffering and anguish of prisoners is fertile land for encountering a personal, even intimate, relationship with the God of Silence, the God of Contemplative Prayer. This is the God who has loved us from the beginning and wants nothing more than our complete wholeness and happiness. Prisoners get this at their core. This is the reason for the many quotes from prisoners that are spread throughout the book. They tell the story themselves. Who better to speak?
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Ray Leonardini is a former lawyer who practiced government and nonprofit law for nearly thirty years. After his retirement he turned toward his foremost area of interest: The Christian contemplative tradition. For the last eight years, as a Volunteer Chaplain, he has led meditation groups and taught Contemplative Prayer and the Spiritual Journey at Folsom State Prison in California. He is also the Director of Prison Contemplative Fellowship an association of current and former prison inmates, chaplains, and volunteers committed to reaching out to prisoners and their families on their travels along the spiritual path.
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