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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... heart to awaken the sense of words so that as we repeat the formula , or poem , we are discovering thought afresh . Take this poem by the Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez ( 1881– 1958 ) —repeatedly saying it can make us ponder the ...
... heart . The outward world changes . Days change . But the word grace , constantly repeated , can measure all vicissitudes . It is the same with poems that we have internalized , making life ours in an inward song that no outer ...
... heart in pilgrimage , The Christian plummet sounding heaven and earth Engine against the Almightie , sinners towre , Reversed thunder , Christ - side - piercing spear , The six - dales world transposing in an hour , A kind of tune ...
... heart , with feelings , without thoughts . In fact , to think without words is one of the aims of meditation ; and to pray with feelings and not formulas is one of the aims of higher prayer . But to begin with , though in both prayer ...
... heart , meditation more a matter of the head . Devotion and feeling , meditation and thinking . But in the ori- gins , in Sanskrit times , for instance , before 1500 B.C. , these func- tions were much more mixed than they are today . We ...
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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 |