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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... response , we subjugate the soul in prayer to the laws of the ordinary world . Praying depends on devel- oping a taste for the soul world . We begin to savor life's subtle nuances and begin to rid ourselves of the illusion of solutions ...
... response . Likewise , in prayer , the soul speaks its own language of reverberation , repetition , and affec- tion . At the same time , it listens . But in the image - space of prayer , the binary , two - way relationship of speaking ...
... responses in our mental and physical life . It can become a means of perception . And it can change the root of perception - it can help us cognitively restructure . Changing per- ceptions is a way to change yourself and the world ...
... response — that prayer awakes in a person . These words can elicit wonder at the magic word as well as the prayer response , and start the person on the attitude to otherness , a Thou - ness with the universe , a sense of a higher ...
... response that can be such a great relief against stress , affecting even musculoskeletal , fight - or - flight , and psycho - immunological symptoms . Poems are beginnings for prayer : You are like a flower So fair , so lovely , so pure ...
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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 |