[6] As explained in Henri Nouwen’s Clowning in Rome: Reflections on Solitude, Celibacy, Prayer, and Contemplation (New York: Image, 1979), 88, 97.
[7] Thomas DuBay, Fire Within: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel—on Prayer (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1989), 61.
[8] DuBay, Fire Within, 57.
[9] Peterson, Eat This Book, 113.
[10] Nouwen, Clowning in Rome, 15.
[11] Augustine, “Sermon 8 on the First Commandment,” as cited in Benignus O’Rourke, Finding Your Hidden Treasure: The Way of Silent Prayer (Andrews, UK: Liguori, 2013), 18.
[12] Paul Fromont, “Rowan Williams on Prayer,” December 23, 2008, accessed September 3, 2015, at http://prodigal.typepad.com/prodigal_kiwi/2008/12/rowan-williams-on-prayer.html.
[14] Nouwen, Clowning in Rome, 28.
[15] Saint Augustine, “On John’s Gospel,” as cited in O’Rourke, Finding Your Hidden Treasure, 11.
[16] See “In the Garden,” accessed September 3, 2015, at www.tanbible.com/tol_sng/sng_inthegarden.htm.
[17] Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (New York: Faber and Faber, 1994), 76.
[18] The song, it turns out, was “Holy Spirit,” lyrics and music by Katie Torwalt and Bryan Torwalt, Jesus Culture, 2015.
[19] David Wells, God in the Whirlwind: How the Holy-Love of God Reorients Our World (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2014), 37.
[21] Peter Bregman, Eighteen Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done (New York: Business Plus, 2011).
[22] Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence (New York: Bantam, 1995), 108.
[23] Sondra Kornblatt, A Better Brain at Any Age (San Francisco: Conari, 2008), 151.
[24] In Evelyn Underhill, A Book of Contemplation: The Which Is Called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul Is Oned with God (London: J. M. Watkins, 1956).
[25] Nouwen, Clowning in Rome, 105.
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