contemplativeAnnie Dillard & Spiritual Illumination
we somehow become aware of our primordial foundation in silence
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" memoir by Annie Dillard
"The Art of Prayer: An Orthodox Anthology" Compiled by Igumen Charition of Valamo translated by E. Kadloubovsky & E.M. Palmer
"Into The Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation" by Martin Laird
"A Sunlit Absence: Silence, Awareness, and Contemplation" by Martin Laird
"The Christian's Only Comfort In Life And Death: An Exposition of the Heidelberg Catechism" Volume 1 by Theodorus VanderGroe
"The Evangelicals: The Struggle To Shape America" by Frances Fitzgerald
"For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given us by God." 1 Corinth. 2:11,12
"I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness" John 12:46