Carmen's meditation on contemplation references real life, the books she's translated like the award-winning Cloud of Unknowing and Book of Privy Counsel, and the only complete translation of Brother Lawrence, called Practice of the Presence: a Revolutionary Translation by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, which reviewers are calling "the new standard."
You're invited to listen in! To read the blog as you listen, visit here: [ Ссылка ]
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Practice of the Presence was originally written by Nicolas Herman or Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, a spiritual classic with diverse global appeal.
Carmen Acevedo Butcher, PhD
Translator, author, teacher, contemplative
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The thumbnail photo is by Carmen of a marsh near her home. It's a still from a video, where the flock of egrets are taking off in flight together, reminding us of the community aspect of contemplation and of the ancient, organic, beyond-linear image of flight for it, as the video/blog describes for us.
