The Mystic Heart- Wayne Teasdale

p>Drawing on his extraordinary experience as an interreligious monk and mystic, Brother Wayne Teasdale explores in The Mystic Heart what he calls interspirituality, a genuine and comprehensive spirituality that draws on the Catholic lay monastic community, Teasdale found himself drawn to the visionary path of Father Bede Griffiths, who initiated him in the way of Sannyasa, the life of renunciation and dedication to the quest for God

From this spiritual vantage, The Mystic Heartshows that what so often forms the basis for conflict can really be a meeting place of understading. For Teasdale, comparing religious tradions is more than a matter of developing tolerance. In their meeting, he writes a greater truth can be realized. He explains the powere of a universal spirituality and its eight practical elements: service, simplicity of lifestyle, daily practice, and serving as a propetic witness in the causes of Justice, peace and protecting creation.

Through scholarship, stories and personal practice, Teasdale demonstrates that the final goal of authentic spirituality is realizing our true nature as mystics.<.p>

Foreword By His Holiness The Dalai Lama