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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... presence of soul . Prayer can easily be soulless . This is the possi- bility I want to work against . Why do I say ... presence of the reality I am meditating . * On the other hand , I might pray to Sophia by saying something like : " O ...
... 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 making ourselves ...
... presence of a different reality . This " different reality " is unimagin- ably deep . From the perspective of ordinary consciousness , the act of repeating words can be boring and frustrating and seem to go in circles — in fact , to go ...
... presence . This presence does not take our emotion from us , does not resolve it , but helps us to carry it . This experience is different from empathy or compassion or the experience of someone simply listening to us ; our emotion is ...
... presence of the spiritual beings to whom we address our prayers do not , I think , make an inner appearance because we sum- mon them . Prayer is not a magical act of conjuring . " Oh , Lord , " " Our Father , " " Hail Mary , " or " Dear ...
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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 |