{"product_id":"teresa-of-avila","title":"Teresa of Ávila and  (Turning to the Mystics)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003eAdvance Praise \u0026amp; Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003eThis book is luminous. Jim Finley renders the passage to union with the Beloved in the center of our own souls a journey of joy, far more ordinary and accessible than we might have believed, while quietly transformative and wholly life-giving. Kirsten Oates’ wise reflections galvanize Jim’s poetic passion.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eMirabai Starr\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003etranslator of the Spanish mystics; author,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext; background: white;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrdinary Mysticism: Your Life as Sacred Ground\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003eThis series, Turning to the Mystics, is based on a much-loved podcast in which James Finley gently accompanies listeners into the wisdom of the Christian mystical tradition. This volume explores the teachings of Teresa of Avila, the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic and Doctor of the Church.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003eIn this volume, Finley invites readers into a close, meditative reading of Teresa’s classic,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Interior Castle.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eGuiding us toward the living presence of God at the center of our own souls. Throughout the book, Kirsten Oates, cohost of the podcast, joins Jim in reflective conversations that help draw Teresa’s wisdom into contemporary life.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"x_elementToProof\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJames Finley\u003ci\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ea psychotherapist, retreat leader, and spiritual director, is part of the Core Faculty of the Center for Action and Contemplation in New Mexico. A former monk under Thomas Merton at the Abbey of Gethsemani, he is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerton’s Palace of Nowhere\u003c\/i\u003e. 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