{"product_id":"9780913836330","title":"His Life is Mine","description":"Contemplation, prayer, spirituality--these words have become popular in our day among those despairing at the banality and emptiness of the contemporary scene. But popular as well are a myriad of pseudo-spiritualities, each offering its own shortcut to spiritual satisfaction. His Life is Mine is a refreshing contrast. The book deals with prayers, and especially with the \"Jesus Prayer\" of Orthodox monasticism. Yet it is not simply a presentation of \"techniques.\" The book is permeated by the awareness that prayer is not just the cultivation of a particular spiritual state, not the investigation of an abstract Idea or dissolution in an anonymous Whole, but an encounter with the personal Being, I AM, demanding in turn our own growth in personhood. \u003cp\u003eAs remarkable as the book is its author, Archimandrite Sophrony. Like a good plot, his life has proceeded from possibility to probability to necessity--from marked success as a painter exhibiting in the great Paris salons after the Russian Revolution via a brief period of study at the Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris to Mount Athos, the Holy Mountain of Eastern monasticism, where he spent twenty-two years, first as a monk in the Russian Monastery of St Panteleimon and for the final seven years as a hermit in the \"desert.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Vladimir's Seminary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009479557360,"sku":"9780913836330","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780913836330_p0.gif?v=1763857763","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780913836330","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}