In this, the book he finished shortly before his death, John Main distils the essence of his teaching that made him one of the major spiritual guides of our era. He raises the source and heart of his teaching on prayer - Christ in you- to a new level of personal and universal significance. Yet he loses nothing of the simplicity and of his understanding of meditation as a unifying practice that can change the world.
'Learning to meditate is the most practical thing in the world.
You require only one quality when you begin. That is seriously to want to learn....The central message of the New Testament is that there is really only one prayer and that his prayer is the prayer of Christ.
It is a prayer that continues in our heart day and night'
For John Main, this prayer is the stream of love flowing between Jesus and the Father, personified in the Holy Spirit and present universally - however it may be named- in every human heart. His life culminated in teaching the way of simplicity into this live, sweeping us beyond narrowness to the grounding experience of the loss and discovery of self. ' In practical terms, this means learning to be so still and silent before God that we cease to think of ourselves' With an emphasis on simplicity beyond 'techniques', John Main calls his readers to a personal experience of the depth of Christian prayer, thereby discovering what fullness of life means.
This book are available in audio format titled ' Communitas 1 & Communitas 2