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Acknowledgements

In 1995 the World Community for Christian Meditation invited me to give the annual John Main Seminar entitled ‘On Jesus’. This book took its first shape in those lectures at the University of San Diego. Since then many have helped and encouraged me and I celebrate them for helping me bring the book to its present form. I am particularly grateful for the help and encouragement of Professor Gerald O’Collins SJ for focusing me and for invaluable advice. Professor Robert Kiely, Fr. Brian Johnstone CSsR, Dr. Robin Daniels, Carla Cooper, Giovanni Felicioni, Doreen Romandini, Clem Sauvé, Teresa da Bertodano, Shirley du Boulay, John Little, and Dominic Schofield gave me the insights of their readings through several revisions. Polly and Mark Schofield helped generously with the notes and Susan Spence with the proofs. Dr Balfour Mount gave a final and most valuable review of the manuscript. My monastic community of the Monastery of Christ the King, Cockfosters, has enriched this book with its friendship, tolerance of my ways and much personal support. Meditators in the World Community have everywhere been my teachers and the love emerging from the silence of meditation with them has sustained and inspired this book on many occasions. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has, through the extraordinary dialogue of the past few years, asked illuminating questions that were more filled with consciousness of Jesus than answers often are. His love of truth and openness to what is different has often returned me to the gospels with new insight. To Doreen and those others who have died and also for those with whom the divisions of life have occurred I hope this book can be a sign both of gratitude and the healing of Christ that is unlimited by time or space.