In this book John Main encourages us to begin to meditate and to persevere on our journey of silent prayer.

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This book is full of helpful advice, as well as deep spiritual insight, and will serve to guide anyone, or any group, wishing to grow closer to God through the practice of meditation.

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This collection of letters was written by Dom John Main to participants and friends of his Benedictine Community of monks and lay people in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

These letters, said Fr. John, were written to communicate the awareness that all renewal - whether personal renewal in Christ or monastic renewal in community - is born from an ultimate self-transcendence in the reality of the present moment.

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These conferences were first given in the Abbey of Gethsemani and have since proved an excellent introduction to the way of meditation in the Christian tradition.

Dom John Main begins by describing his own spiritual journey into this way and goes on to show how it is a way open to all who wish to "open themselves fully to the wonder of God, to the enduring present".

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By discussing the Christian presence in a modern university Dom John Main opens up an important reflection on the nature of community and the role of spiritual guides and teachers.

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The monk's life, as Dom John Main saw it, was an adventure - a journey beyond human limitation into the creative mystery of God. The monk has a special message to convey to the modern world - that we are all alive with infinite potential. He conveys this message most of all by his life itself.

These talks on modern monasticism strike a chord in everyone who sences the need for depth and the presence of an ultimate goal in life.

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This book of daily readings draws on John Main's best writing to present the heart of his teaching in a way which will open new spiritual avenues to the reader.

“Know from your own heart, from your own experience that you were created for infinite expansion of spirit.”

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A disillusioned young man journies to a remote Greek island in search of renewal. By chance he meets an elderly hermit who helps him in his quest. The sage turns out to be none other than Robery Lax, a major minimalist poet and close friend of Thoma Merton, the famed Trappist Monk, and Ad Reinhardt, the abstract Expressionist.

Their conversations offer an unprecented and revealing description of the man Thomas Merton said "was born with the deepest sense of who God was" and Jack Kerouac once described as "a strange, wonderful laughing Buddha".

In an interview with S.T. Georgiou Robert Lax mentioned that he practiced Christian Meditation as taught by Dom John Main.

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