El Fabricante de Milagros

A través de la palabra autobiográfica de Matilde de Magdeburgo, mística y poeta del siglo XIII, recorremos un viaje al encuentro de Dios, que va de la pasión y el deseo de la juventud al cansancio de la vejez, que nos conduce del éxtasis a la Cruz, de la unión a la ruptura, del gozo erótico al sufrimiento. La voz de Matilde penetra en los misterios de la divinidad y llama a abandonarse al fluir de la vida, a contemplar y envolverse en el fuego que arde y se derrama de la divinidad. La escritura carece de linealidad, evocando el recorrido circular de una danza cósmica, al estilo de...

Like many other skeptics, news anchor Dan Harris thought meditation was reserved for people who collect crystals and have impossible diets. One day changed all that when he suffered a panic attack on national television for several million people to witness. Since then, he discovered that meditation can help mitigate depression and anxiety, control blood pressure, and improve overall wellbeing. In this work, Harris and meditation teacher Jeff Warden embark on a journey to explore the myths, misunderstandings, and self-deceptions that keep people from meditation. With a mixture of testimonies...

Translated by Kieran Kavanaugh, OCD, and Otilio Rodriguez, OCD. Contains Book of Her Foundations and Minor Works. In 1573, while staying in Salamanca to assist her nuns in the task of establishing one of her seventeen monasteries, Teresa began composing the story of their foundation. The Book of Her Foundations comprises the major portion of Volume Three. This book not only tells the story of the establishment of her monasteries but, characteristic of Teresa, digresses into counsels on prayer, love, melancholy, virtuous living and dying, plus other teachings of the Mother Foundress. This book ...

These twelve letters are far from being an abstract and pompous dissertation of theology, much less trite parables that support a vision of a distant god. On the contrary, the words here come out of the voice of a man that has searched for God in the faces of his neighbors. Waiting under the text are questions that the author answers convincingly to what is posed and required of religions today: why does God allow evil to exist? Why is God silent in the midst of human suffering? How to recover the "motherly face of God," that is to say, the feminine side of God? How to speak of God's...