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John Main

Born

January 01, 1926

Died

January 01, 1982

Website

http://www.wccm.org/item.asp?recordid=johnmain

Genre

Religion & Spirituality

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John Main was a Benedictine monk who taught Christian meditation.
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Average rating: 4.22 · 360 ratings · 45 reviews · 82 distinct works • Similar authors

	Word into Silence 4.09 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1980 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical Simplicity 4.57 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Main: Essential Writings 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Door to Silence 4.63 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moment of Christ: The Path of Meditation 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1984 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way Of Unknowing 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1989 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Christian Meditation: The Gethsemane Talks 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1982 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heart of Creation 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1989 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El camino de la meditacion 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gethsemani Talks: A Simple Teaching on Meditation in the Christian Tradition 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...Our challenge as Christians is not to try to convert people around us to our way of belief but to love them, to be ourselves living incarnations of what we believe, to live what we believe and to love what we believe.”
― John Main

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“That is the conviction we must come to in our meditation, that the darkness cannot quench the light.”
― John Main, Way of Unknowing: Expanding Spiritual Horizons through Meditation

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“The light which enlightens us bathes the whole of creation but it enters us through a narrow aperture”
― John Main, Word into Silence

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