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Hammer & Fire is a guide to Christian prayer and contemplation. In simple but evocative prose, the author - a contemplative monk, retreat master, and spiritual director - guides the reader towards a deeper prayer life, and a closer union with God. Fr. Raphael describes his approach in the book's Introduction: "The human personality is not fulfilled by the inauthentic, the false, the incomplete. On the contrary, these are the sources of dissatisfaction, frustration, warping of the mind and heart, anxiety, depression, neuroses, impulse and personality disorders.... To become fully human and alive, to be integrated and mature, to be effective in our service and undertakings, we need to be transformed into Jesus Christ through a transforming union, through which we become truly ourselves. This book is about that transforming union."
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