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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... Thou - ness with the universe , a sense of a higher , magic life in the world around us . Outwardly , these observances may sometimes seem dead to the nonbeliever . In fact , they have an inner life , but the newcomer or habituated old ...
... Thou , to the universe . It is the grammatical case , the vocative , in inflected lan- guages that calls out or ... thou breath of Autumn's being Thou , from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven , like ghosts from an ...
... Thou of life . This mood of invocation awakens our inner dependence on beauty , truth , and goodness , and helps us actually create it . O Attic shape ! Fair Attitude ! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought .... " Beauty is ...
... Thou . But poetry , particularly in Roman times , and since the four- teenth century , has turned widely to secular interests while prayer maintains its sacred dimension . T. S. Eliot , possibly the leading poet and poetic critic of ...
... thou . Meditation tends to take place in the first person and then rise above it . Prayer aims to petition , address , entreat , beseech , intercede with , vow to , thank , praise , or get the attention of God , some higher being , the ...
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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 |