Give Us This Day: The Story of PrayerSteinerBooks, 1999 - Всего страниц: 256 Gandhi called prayer "the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." But what is a prayer? Do you need to believe in God in order to pray? Why are the words important? What is the difference between prayer and meditation? Should you ask for things when you pray? Do prayers change the world around us? Rufus Goodwin--writer, linguist, and former United Press correspondent to the Vatican--addresses these and other questions about prayer in this thoughtful book. He examines the various traditions of prayer through the ages. He discusses practices, ranging from the ancient Indian yoga of sound to the Christian monastic rules of prayer, giving examples of the various religious litanies that ritualize and celebrate the sense of a higher life. Goodwin's intention is not to compare different traditions, but to get at the essential technique and the attitude of prayer--its cognitive workings. Prayer is seen as key to an active inner life and an experience of the higher self. He shows us how prayer can bring about a cognitive restructuring that provides greater access to renewal, imagination, inspiration, and intuition, and provides an anchor for meaning in daily life. |
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... answered . Life itself begins to be the answer . As long as we approach prayer as though we were sending a message to God and were then waiting for a specific , direct response , we subjugate the soul in prayer to the laws of the ...
... answered completely disappears . This question arises only when we have not sufficiently stepped out of our stance of egotism that still wants something in a purely per- sonal way . The presence of the spiritual beings to whom we ...
... answer is different . What the soul seeks in prayer is prayer . This is not a circular argument but good spiritual ... answered . If through prayer we can gradually move out of our isolation and begin to have moments when we enter the ...
... is the future . Prayer may start with a question , the effort of which is part of its own answer . One might even say that prayer is a question that produces an effect . This is because prayer operates at Introduction 3.
... answers itself — while in a prayer it speaks to God . A poem can be a door to meditation or lead to prayer , as this poem by George Herbert ( 1593-1633 ) does , in which he tried to capture the essence of prayer : Prayer , the Churches ...
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The Wailing Wall Jewish Tradition | 42 |
Celtic Blessings | 49 |
Jesus at Prayer | 57 |
ACCESS TO PRAYER | 135 |
Seed Words for Sleepless Nights | 137 |
Stages or Meditation | 144 |
A First Prayer | 154 |
Mantras | 159 |
Western Mantras | 166 |
The Lords Prayer | 171 |
The Future or Prayer | 176 |
The Apostles Pray | 68 |
The Church Fathers | 75 |
Eastern Orthodox Tradition | 86 |
Prayer Rugs Islamic Tradition | 93 |
What Use Is Prayer? The Medievals | 104 |
The Dazzling Darkness | 113 |
Objections to Prayer | 123 |
APPENDIX | 185 |
B Medicine in Prayer | 197 |
GLOSSARY of prayer terms | 207 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 217 |
INDEX | 222 |