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How the light gets in : writing as a spiritual practice / Pat Schneider.

by Schneider, Pat, 1934-

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Oxford University Press, c2013.

Creative writing -- Religious aspects.

9780199933983 (pbk.)

0199933987 (pbk.)

9780199933969 (hc.)

0199933960 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Writing as a spiritual practice

xii, 303 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their lives through spiritual observation and exploratory writing. With meditations on topics such as fear, prayer, forgiveness, social justice, and death, Pat guides readers through the philosophical and spiritual questions that face everyone in the course of meeting life's challenges. Praised as "the wisest teacher of writing I know" by the celebrated writing guru Peter Elbow, Pat Schneider has lived a life of writing and teaching, passion and compassion. Schneider's book is distinct from the many others in the popular spirituality and creative writing genre by virtue of its approach, using one's lived experience--including the experience of writing--as a springboard for expressing the often ineffable events that define everyday life. As Schneider writes, "All of us live in relation to mystery, and becoming conscious of that relationship can be a beginning point for a spiritual practice--whether we experience mystery in nature, in ecstatic love, in the eyes of our children, our friends, the animals we love, or in more strange experiences of intuition, synchronicity, or prescience"--Provided by publisher.

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