Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

My Conversation with Sophia: Reflections on Wisdom’S Contemplative Path
My Conversation with Sophia: Reflections on Wisdom’S Contemplative Path
My Conversation with Sophia: Reflections on Wisdom’S Contemplative Path
Ebook126 pages1 hour

My Conversation with Sophia: Reflections on Wisdom’S Contemplative Path

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

()

Read preview

About this ebook

In the Bible, a mysterious Lady Wisdom appears in many guises and dominates in the Wisdom Books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha. But just what is this spirit that is so central to all of creation? In My Conversation with Sophia, author William Z. Shetter shares an imagined conversation with Sophia, the personification of wisdom.

Through this conversation, Shetter addresses how this ancient wisdom speaks to us today by exploring twenty-six facets of wisdom that include such subjects as attentiveness, simplicity, growth, humility, grace, and compassion. My Conversation with Sophia shows that wisdom is not the amassing of knowledge, but rather, it is insight. True wisdom is not only a matter of the mind but of the heart as well.

Shetter explains how wisdoms timeless core is alive in the form of the wisdomlight that is at the center of all of us. We explore our own wisdom path in a spirit of contemplationreflecting attentively on the depth of what our experience is telling us. As Sophia opens an awareness of the centrality of wisdom in the worlds great religions and ethical systems, she provides a deeper understanding of wisdom as the divine breath of all the great sacred paths.

William Z. Shetter takes the reader into the metaphorical and mystical realms of life as smoothly as gliding across a still lake in a canoe. His Conversation with Wisdom gently leads us all into dialogue with the ineffable sage that moves within history and beyond it. It is a tremendous springboard for an individual or group on a journey of deepening spirituality.
Melanie Supan Groseta, Benedictine Oblate and Spiritual Director

LanguageEnglish
PublisheriUniverse
Release dateSep 3, 2014
ISBN9781491745038
My Conversation with Sophia: Reflections on Wisdom’S Contemplative Path
Author

William Z. Shetter

After devoting more than forty years to an academic career, in his retirement William Z. Shetter has been turning, in both writing and activity, increasingly toward contemplation. Most recently he is the author of Some Thoughts on Becoming Eighty-five. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

Related to My Conversation with Sophia

Related ebooks

New Age & Spirituality For You

View More

Related articles

Reviews for My Conversation with Sophia

Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings

0 ratings0 reviews

What did you think?

Tap to rate

Review must be at least 10 words

    Book preview

    My Conversation with Sophia - William Z. Shetter

    7Qabook_preview_excerpt.htmlZݮ~/PdITvbJ41/VJ܊һ+C{I}3Kl 7uH~lSC{tGכGPͣ|`?u7}3[hB] v9X&spWT;[qe=޵eZ9lvʶٷ`mXW7ɸ֋`ٸmQ'C "}sT kBWXWg1*oVzƕ=Xʊ xCG Q>utD Sъ+s\~;}7FUvX!uck1,pjop57a`Cwmr? ^D ~¹-SsVSʚ:>>(&̠n˧Q0[<7'j% ]OyS'rXl:[ϘV|H٢$⿨aD {P-,#Yշbysf :60\U'LybP Bpjleu~ -S-C\$AXQ_.2>-P/`*v>2+@m|U; Q(elvq4Z3/?Ƙ,:K'D"$ZGE gg4k3 r.v0Lw0KO6"3(7 en |f<7Qk<I8mp9iSYQH8BWzi ћ%{3Եbơ u.8yIm?5'SqpZ8i6)7@,nRwŒ9g#2;a3s {"lew~tɈ7+}xOpu;˼ᑧXQJ ӽF\9FQO7,vPP~ïVJJ yC&&n@l1B3?b1w>p3NTqS֤F Q5c/K=u\(<3r0' GRE$N24`T66yS^{ŗ WF\vcD5SK 0`-E06%TPfh:s&@LZԲjYi[)]=s(v&B_Z34DʶI0G0wQ~ƿ[Vd;7nv"/rTJ/VPeA}fOݧe ,(&uu;'B1Vb@c t9 R X "G瘂~pcҕ,iaTCp߶gu|WOsg2c:^qs>y5YU @܃-b^buw %eh["$Zf,^Ji2 “J[q@tY`G&̛p,ʍ,2)@49ۅ MLnH.x "sPVU/V{К2c]dqVVY SWJhIRNYYssh3 [QHh-(^'*)L;ezrN~: F˅ tة [WSR뮆xHR%D^ {6ybޥ,qB"B5 PSS5B{:!j6\sOA; R i:NQ扌NdWg>p2^eD cX_\M/n߃ns_AiW/rʑ,Sj 09͇)@i<]=C?; V䪁DMTa>džҦܬ΂E[@PU?c[C)H2Z,ޅytvNB8ƒN ~Vy- z": G-gz02t:rL|52!&|-z?"h)-;F!~;#e''"+P:|s݄M;N˞CD-k#%C}{m<ǂɑ["C;an( 9^Cm9WCG!dn;gΘ"^O(sR0+X(gVy!«YX"{"V,29Xu"%z.zk}%*AS~zU'^_ۧD5xLXNw/€m0/:ay'eb;"yuKZ=5:a=
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1