Finding Peace Here and Now: How Ignatian Spirituality Leads Us to Healing and Wholeness - Paperback

by Eric A. Clayton (Author)

A road map for finding inner peace and bringing peace to others

These days, everyone is looking for peace. But too often we look in all the wrong places.

In Finding Peace Here and Now, award-winning Catholic author Eric A. Clayton shows you that peace starts from within. By looking inside yourself, you can discover and embrace who you are meant to be in God. Using Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a guide, Clayton offers:

● stories from the Ignatian tradition
● meditations on God's unique dream for you
● spiritual reflections to help you experience peace
● practical tools for becoming who you want to be

These resources will lead you along a path of inner peace, which you can then extend outward to bring peace to others and challenging situations.

This book will resonate with those who are familiar with the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises as well as those learning about them for the first time. In the end, you'll learn how to navigate your own journey to inner peace and a love of self while discovering how this journey is tied to better loving and serving neighbors and working for global justice--all for the greater glory of God.

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Timeless Wisdom for Finding Inner Peace and Navigating Life's Challenges

These days, everyone is looking for peace. But too often we look in all the wrong places.

In Finding Peace Here and Now, award-winning author Eric A. Clayton shows us that we should be looking inside ourselves. Peace starts within by discovering and embracing who we are meant to be in God. Using Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a guide, Clayton offers stories, meditations, spiritual reflections, and practical tools to lead us along a path of inner peace and societal transformation.

"Speaking to everything from inner calm to social justice, Clayton's book offers practical tools for any peace seeker in a quest that touches all aspects of our lives."
--James Martin, SJ, author of Learning to Pray: A Guide for Everyone

"If you are overwhelmed by the suffering and complexity in the world, this book offers inspiration and tools to turn our desire for peace into reality."
--Becky Eldredge, Ignatian-trained spiritual director, award-winning author, and founder of Ignatian Ministries

"The gifts of Ignatian spirituality--discernment, integration, self-examination, justice--are in short supply in the church today. Now more than ever, we need teachers who can cast a vision for a maturing Christian faith. Clayton is one of those teachers. This book is both salve and sword."
--Shannon K. Evans, author of The Mystics Would Like a Word: Six Women Who Met God and Found a Spirituality for Today

"Finding Peace Here and Now is the book our world (and your spirit) needs now!"
--Sister Colleen Gibson, SSJ, pastoral associate and cohost of the Beyond the Habit podcast

Author Biography

Eric A. Clayton (MA, American University) is an award-winning writer, speaker, and storyteller whose books include My Life with the Jedi: The Spirituality of Star Wars and Cannonball Moments: Telling Your Story, Deepening Your Faith. He is deputy director for communications at the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, where he hosts AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast and writes Now Discern This, a weekly column on Ignatian spirituality. His writing has appeared in America, National Catholic Reporter, IgnatianSpirituality.com, and more, and he received the 2025 Writer's Award in Spirituality from the Loyola Institute for Spirituality. Clayton lives outside Baltimore, Maryland. Visit his website at ericclaytonwrites.com.