Description: The Listening Path is a book for the attentive companion, the thoughtful observer, the restless seeker, or the curious soul. Blending reflection and poetry, it reveals how the simple, everyday act of listening can be a spiritual practice, becoming a path of connection, and how moments of stillness can open us to wonder and deeper meaning.
Brief description: Andrew Rudd is a poet, teacher and leader of retreats and quiet days, who loves to listen to people in spiritual accompaniment. He has a PhD in spirituality and poetry, and his poetry has been widely published in anthologies, competitions, broadcasts and musical settings. He was poet in residence at Manchester Cathedral from 2017-2022 and is a Lay Minister in the Church of England. He is the author of The Quiet Path (Canterbury Press, 2024)
Review Quotes: 'This is a book about listening and being listened to- listening with the body, listening with the whole person- listening with the ear of the heart. Andrew Rudd keeps on coming back to the word "redress" He believes the act of deep listening brings redress. Redress he writes is like God bending down to us and we looking up to God and in this act of listening we begin to find ourselves and find the world: restored, balanced, healed and integrated. Andrew Rudd writes with openness, wisdom insight, and with practical humility. He is a great listener himself and very attentive to the smallest details of the natural world which become signs of God's presence among us. This is a book which through short beautiful reflections helps us to enlarge our own souls and to really listen again.'--Richard Carter