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Clairmont Colleges Digital Library: An excellent resource for many different documents (e.g., correspondence between Bob Buford and Peter Drucker, letter from Rick Warren to Peter Drucker, etc.)

CONTEMPLATIVE TERMS
Recognize these "inside" terms used by contemplatives:

Labyrinths Enneagrams Prayer Stations Breath Prayers Jesus Candles The Jesus Prayer Lectio Divina Taize Palms Up, Palms Down Yoga The Silence Sacred Space Ancient Prayer Practices A Thin Place Divine Mystery Spiritual Direction

Ignation Contemplation Contemplative Centering Centering prayer Prayer of the Heart Dark night of the soul Practicing the Presence Divine Center Inner light Mantra Awareness of Being Slow Prayer Being in the Present Moment Beyond Words Spiritual Disciplines Spiritual Formation

A Comment about Contemplative Terms

Many of these terms are considered "inside" terms according to many contemplatives, such as Youth Specialties writer, Michael Perschon. On April 16th, 2006, Youth Specialties issued a new article by Perschon that coincidentally illustrates the very thing we are saying here.

"Fitness buffs have an inside language. The really serious ones like to use proper anatomy terms, like gluteus maximus instead of bum. They still mean bum but, like most experts, enjoy having some special knowledge others don't have. People who practice contemplative prayer are often no different. Like any other practice, contemplative prayer has its own inside language, which is clear to the initiated but means little to outsiders. Much of the writing on contemplative prayer uses this inside language."—Michael Perschon, Contemplative Prayer Practices

See Perschon's other articles on contemplative prayer.

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