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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... poets when we pray . The ideal of praying is that during the time of prayer everything within us becomes " word . " Our thinking , our emotions , our imagination all become centered in the word , so much so that we become word . When we ...
... poems if one has not found God , grace , a religion , or a church . Praying is like poetry is like swimming . One has ... poem , one prayer , is like one grain of sand on the beach . It starts the dialogue . This is why even focus words ...
... poem , or even a believer , but it can invoke the same attitude of reverence — and the prayer or relaxation response ... poems if we are Christians ; we suspect the Christian prayers if we are Jews . Poetry activates the memory ...
... poem of Zoroaster , the Persian teacher from the seventh century B.C. — it asks the questions of the creation : This I ask Thee — tell it truly to me , Lord ! Who the Sire was , Father first of Holiness ? Who the pathway for the sun ...
... poem , enlivens the moment . This is the kind of waking up of the inner life that the vocative relation , whether addressed to God or no , can bring . Other poems are even more like prayers , such as St. Francis of Assisi's " Canticle ...
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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 |