About this title: As in her bestselling "Amazing Grace," Norris demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia--or soul-weariness--through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition.
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Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Date Published: 2008-09-16
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Date Published: 2008-09-16
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781594489969ISBN:1594489963
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Date Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN-13:9781594489969ISBN:1594489963
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Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
Date Published: 2008
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Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2008-09-16
ISBN-13:9780143143710ISBN:0143143719
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"In this book, Norris explores Acedia which is apathy and spiritual boredom (in medieval times it became sloth). She talks about her own struggle with it, mines the Spiritual wisdom of desert monks and Benedictines, and distinguishes it from the psychological illness, Depression.
The sustained criticism of this book is that Norris rambles a bunch. But there is much that is thoughtful, reflective and wise. This book will likely make it on my re-read list as there are things in here I want to come back to."
"I have read previous works by Kathleen Norris including "Cloister Walk" and "Dakota" both about her experiences as a frequent visitor to a monastic community in North Dakota. I have enjoyed her thoughtful contemplative insights. This book explores the theme of spiritual acedia, which is a term that comes from early Christian monastic writing and means something like spiritual sloth.The book also relates her husband's depression and illnesses. She looks at the overlap between the spiritual and the psychological and learns that acedia is an affliction that has plagued her since adolescence. This book was heavy going but contains gems every few paragraphs that made it worthwhile for me. I read it over a period of several months.Ultimately, Norris was tryng to understand her new state of widowhod and dealing with her grief. I found the intellectualization stifling but still respectd her sincerity."
"I discovered poet Kathleen Norris as the author of a picture book about Benedict and Scholastica and illustrated by Tomie dePaola, at the Benedictine monastery near where I live. An Oblate herself, she is also a spiritual writer. Here she writes about acedia -- which was described by Evagrius in the 4th century as one of the eight bad thoughts and eventually morphed into sloth -- although that's not really it. This is one you'll need to take slowly, to see what happens when you get sick of it all -- until you finally don't care about any of it. I don't want to rush it - but I'll have to get it back to the library at some point - or buy it. My husband and I take turns reading each night."
"I listened to the author read this one, and I'm sure my opinion is somewhat colored by the fact that she is not a particularly good performer, and she has a fairly grating voice. Nevertheless a very interesting book--taking acedia (roughly the Deadly Sin of sloth) very seriously and in fact taking all the deadly sins the same way. She traces its history from one of the eight bad thoughts of the 5th century desert fathers (and, she invariably adds, mothers, although there were precious few of those) through its development into a deadly sin, through its becoming a medical phenomenon (the 17th century's Melancholy) to its present status as the besetting problem of our current civilization. On the one hand she tries very hard to distinguish it from our modern idea of depression, but on the other she sees it broadly as manifesting itself in almost any behavior she doesn't like, from cellphone dependence to writer's block. She circles round and round the subject, looking at it from almost every angle, with many apt quotations from other authors. Interspersed with all this are descriptions of her own experiences, some extremely painful, as coping with the fatal illness of her husband, some quite funny, as her attending her 40th high school reunion. Overall a very thoughtful and moving book. It's one I'll buy when it comes out in paper, and I'll probably enjoy reading it far more than I did listening to it."
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