This comprehensive guide opens a world of imaginative yet simple ways to approach individual prayer. Breaking through boundaries and stereotypes Silf shows prayer as a journey into reflective living. She invites readers to experience prayer as a natural, organic process and offers a powerful vision of what personal prayer can be....

This refurbished edition of Margaret Silf's Inner Compass marks the tenth anniversary of the acclaimed English-language primer on Ignatian spirituality and the Spiritual Exercises. The new edition features a new introduction and personal invitation to the reader, a greatly expanded resource section, and a new design aimed at the next generation of spiritual readers. Silf brings to the book both a laywoman's perspective and a gifted writer's literary skill. The entire work exudes a congenial, practical outlook and a thoroughly modern sensibility. As Silf says, the book "grew out of questions rather than certainty, discovery rather than doctrine, the experience of everyday living rather than academic study." All readers seeking to deepen their relationship with God will benefit from Silf's dynamic presentation of Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises....

Journey with an Ignatian spiritual pilgrim and discover God s presence in the mundane as well as the magnificent.
Many Christians believe that God is experienced only at special times and in special places. Still others feel that God can truly be experienced only by special, spiritually trained people, such as priests. Surely, they assume, God is not to be found in ordinary times, in ordinary places, by ordinary people.
In Compass Points, best-selling Ignatian spirituality author Margaret Silf enables us to see God beyond the grandiose and introduces us to the Divine in our daily lives. Through short but powerful meditations and vignettes based on her own authentic spiritual experiences, Silf reveals the interior process of Ignatian mindfulness a core tenet of which is that God can be found in all things. By joining Silf on her journey through real life in the real world, readers will have their own eyes, minds, and hearts opened to the Divine experience and will come to recognize God s active presence in everything that they do....

Every person has a personal story -- a story as big and beautiful as the universe itself. And each of our personal stories is an essential chapter in the Big Story.

We are told that life's story begins from elements released into space at the death of a star. But what about our destiny? Does that speck of stardust also hold within it a "spark of God"? Is life evolving toward levels of consciousness that we cannot yet even imagine?

Roots and Wings is a book full of questions to inspire deeper thinking. It invites you to participate in an ageold conversation about our origins and our destiny. It encourages you to think about what it might mean to become fully and truly human -- and to discover your own response to that perpetual question.

In Roots and Wings Margaret Silf deftly brings together science and spirituality, allowing a bold new synthesis to emerge between them. The book ends with a bibliography titled "Some interesting books . . ." -- an enticing entree to a variety of pertinent related writings....