Silence, Simplicity & Solitude: A Complete Guide to Spiritual Retreat
From the best-selling author of God Is a Verb, the classic spiritual retreat guide that enables anyone to create their own self-guided spiritual retreat at home.
The ancient mystics looked to spiritual retreat as a way of cleansing the body and healing the soul. In Silence, Simplicity & Solitude, David A. Cooper traces the path of the mystics and the practice of spiritual retreat in all the major faith traditions, sharing the common techniques and practices of the retreat experience for beginner and advanced meditators alike.
Cooper shows the way to the self-discovery and discipline of the spiritual retreat experience and clearly instructs how to create an effective, self-guided spiritual retreat in your own home.
Silence, Simplicity & Solitude teaches that not only is silence a great healer, but that inner spiritual retreat can provide life-changing insight into deeper spiritual truths
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Book details
- Author
- David Cooper
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Mind, Body, Spirit › Inspiration & Personal Growth
Religion › Spirituality - Topics
- meditation · silence and solitude · Jewish mysticism · ancient mystics · personal transformation · world faith traditions · self-discovery
- ISBN-13
- 9781683362951 (Paperback)9781684421428 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI DAVID A. COOPER was a rabbi, mystic, and author who studied mysticism for more than thirty years. His books include Three Gates to Meditation Practice, The Handbook of Jewish Meditation Practices and Silence, Simplicity & Solitude.
Cooper was ordained by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi in 1993 and studied Kabbalah and Hasidism in the Old City of Jerusalem for over six years during the 1980s. He was initiated into Sufism by Pir Vilayat Khan, practiced Zen Buddhism with Roshi Bernie Glassman, and Tibetan Buddhism with Tsoknyi Rinpoche.
When not writing, Cooper and his wife Shoshana founded the Heart of Stillness Hermitage in Boulder, Colorado. His books draw on decades of immersion in Jewish, Sufi, Zen, and Tibetan contemplative traditions.