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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... blessing of your almighty Wisdom ; may Your presence guide us toward the unity of Heaven and Earth . " When I pray in this way , I do not have the same kind of experience as I do when meditating . I do not lose viii FOREWORD.
... experience the presence of an image . Thought also belongs to the realm of the soul , as does feeling . Nonetheless , it is image that reveals soul activity most clearly . From the soul's perspective , the art of prayer consists of ...
... 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.
... experience this kind of subtlety when we pray . At the same time , we must also begin to acquire a feeling for the presence of a different reality . This " different reality " is unimagin- ably deep . From the perspective of ordinary ...
... experience of the emotion of prayer is not the same as our experience of emotions such as grief , gratitude , love , and so on . Life's emotions tend to be more sudden , more violent , more overpowering than emotion in prayer ...
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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 |