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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... kind of inner presence of the reality I am meditating . * On the other hand , I might pray to Sophia by saying something like : " O , Sophia , Holy Soul of the World , give us the blessing of your almighty Wisdom ; may Your presence ...
... kind of emotion may become very intense . The one similarity with meditation is that , if other thoughts intrude while I pray , then prayer does not go well , just as my meditation suf- fers when extraneous thoughts intrude . Prayer as ...
... kind of ritual or that repetition places the person praying into a kind of trance state . But , if we stay with simply trying to describe the soul nature of praying , we find another aspect of the logic of image . An image , for ...
... 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 consciousness ...
... kind of whirlpool . Any emotion we may have brought to the moment of prayer thereby takes on a quality of deep reverence . When we begin praying , we may experience an overwhelming feeling — for instance , we may feel grief or joy ...
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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 |