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March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 1594484384
EAN: 9781594484384
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Non-Fiction Biography
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling masterpiece
from "one of the most eloquent yet earthbound spiritual
writers of our time (San Francisco Chronicle). Kathleen
Norris had written several much loved books, yet she
couldn't drag herself out of bed in the morning, couldn't
summon the energy for her daily tasks. Even as she
struggled, Norris recognized her familiar battle with
acedia, a word she had discovered in early Church text
years earlier. Fascinated by this "noonday demon", so
familiar to those in the early and medieval Church, Norris
knew she must restore this forgotten but important concept
to the modern world's vernacular. An examination of acedia
in the light of psychology, spirituality, the healing
powers of religious practice, and Norris's own experience,
Acedia & Me is both intimate and historically sweeping,
brimming with exasperation and reverence, sometimes funny,
often provocative, and always insightful.
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