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Acedia & Me

A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life

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Acedia & Me

Auteur(s): Kathleen Norris
Narrateur(s): Kathleen Norris
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 In Acedia & Me, the acclaimed author Kathleen Norris explicates and demystifies the forgotten but utterly relevant concept of acedia, a term that has often been understood as spiritual sloth, but really signifies the serious malady of being unable to care. With great insight and candor, Norris explores acedia through the geography of her life as a writer, her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness, and her keen interest in the monastic tradition.

She writes of her and her husband David's battles with acedia and its clinical cousin, depression, and traces acedia's path through literary and religious history, exposing the damage it does not only to individual lives but also to our culture as a whole, as we are desensitized by ever more intrusive distractions and lose the ability to care about what is truly important. Thus, she finds that the "restless boredom, frantic escapism, commitment phobia, and enervating despair" that we struggle with today are "the ancient demon of acedia in modern dress."

An examination of acedia in the light of theo logy, psychology, monastic spirituality, the healing powers of religious practice, and Norris's own experience, Acedia & Me is both intimate and historically sweeping, brimming with exasperation as well as reverence, sometimes funny, often provocative, and always important.

©2008 Kathleen Norris (P)2008 Penguin Audiobooks Art et littérature Auteurs Personnalités religieuses Spiritualité Études religieuses Mariage Moyen Âge Tradition
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I was pleasantly surprised by well thought out and researched spiritual and biographical manuscript that weaves the wisdom of ancient metaphysical tradition, philosophy, psychology and psychiatry in tandem, giving a name to a phenomenology hithero unarticulated by me, and now enlightened and challenged to pursue the pilgrimage through Acedia through a worldview and understanding that permits a "going through the valley of Baca, making it a place of springs". This will indeed become a volume to reread again, and refer to others. A generous offering from this writer that I am so grateful to have been introduced to.

A magnanimous & erudite read

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I very much appreciate this book. Filled with ancient wisdom and insights. This is my second time listening to it and I know I will listen to it again in a year or two.

A very helpful book

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