This set of ten CDs contains sixty-nine extracts from John Main’s spoken teachings arranged thematically in eight sections. The talks offer a clear and comprehensive overview of the teaching on Christian prayer by a contemporary spiritual master. The authority, simplicity and humour with which John Main taught will touch the listener at a very deep level. His teaching addresses all people struggling with the pressures of modern-day living and seeking depth and meaning in their lives.

I know of no other teaching in this form that carries the spirit of the gospel, the living Word, so directly and purely straight into the heart. His voice varies over the years the tapes were made. In the early ones you hear the physical vigour and passion of his full teaching authority. In the talks recorded in his last months of life one hears his voice grow weaker. But there is a different kind of strength. (Laurence Freeman OSB)

The print version of these talks is available in a book by the same title: The Hunger for Depth and Meaning.