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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... begin with the soul , but it moves toward , or into , the spirit . For example , suppose I begin to meditate on Sophia— divine feminine Wisdom — by concentrating on the inner image of Sophia described in the Apocalypse of St. John : a ...
... relationship to each other . If you give close attention to the act of praying and acquire the ability to experience the reverberation to and from the soul world , then , while repeating a prayer , you will begin X FOREWORD.
... begin to notice another aspect of the resonance of the image . The prayer will not be the same each time it is spoken . Very subtle differences occur . If you pay attention to these you will notice something like a " thinning " of the ...
... begin to savor life's subtle nuances and begin to rid ourselves of the illusion of solutions . To be relieved of the ego's desire for a solution to every problem does not mean that prayer changes nothing in life . Quite the con- trary ...
... begin praying , we may experience an overwhelming feeling — for instance , we may feel grief or joy resulting From some- thing that has happened in our life . These emotions do not go away but are held in a new kind of space , one that ...
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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 |