Brother
David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B., is the author of
A
Listening Heart,
The
Music of Silence,
and, with Fritjof Capra,
Belonging
to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontier of Science and Spirituality.
These dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi, one of the first American-born Zen masters, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, the Roman Catholic monk and hermit, took place during a week-long retreat the two old friends undertook in 1991 in a remote part of the island of Hawaii. Their aim was to approach...
This introduction to the writing and preaching of the greatest medieval European mystic contains selections from his sermons, treatises, and sayings, as well as Table Talk, the records of his informal advice to his spiritual children.