The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence

Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company

The Practice of the Presence of God: Being Conversations and Letters of Nicholas Herman of Lorraine, Brother Lawrence. Translated from the French. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1958. Small volume: 4.5 x 6.5 inches. 64 pages. Very good hardcover in a good dustjacket. The dustjacket has some wear at the spine ends and folds at the flap corners, some faint stains on both sides of each flap fold and at the back top edge, a few creases and tiny tears, and some tanning along some of the edges. Unclipped price and a bookstore price sticker on the front fold. The red cover has minimal wear at the spine ends and corners. The pages are bright and unmarked.

Paramahansa Yogananda referred to the 17th-century mystic with these words in Autobiography of a Yogi: “Brother Lawrence…tells us his first glimpse of God-realization came about by viewing a tree. Nearly all human beings have seen a tree; few, alas, have thereby seen the tree’s Creator.” Yoganandaji encouraged his followers to practice the presence of God, and Self-Realization Fellowship minister Brother Premamoy gave a copy of The Practice of the Presence of God to the new postulant monks at Christmastime.