Light the Flame: 365 Days of Prayer

Light the Flame: 365 Days of Prayer

Language: English

Pages: 404

ISBN: 1401943136

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


     The act of prayer has been recognized—by sages and skeptics alike—as a powerful way to enact positive physical, spiritual, and emotional change. Prayer has the power to take us beyond the rational mind, opening our hearts and engaging our souls. It brings us peace and health. Its aim is to uplift our spirits and bring us closer to the divine.
     In Light the Flame, teacher and poet Andrew Harvey has gathered the 365 prayers that have most influenced his life, offering us a daily reminder of the sacred. Drawing insights from around the world, across religions, and an array of disciplines, Harvey provides inspiration from great spiritual minds like Rumi and Thomas Merton, activists like César Chávez and Mother Teresa, and philosophers like Nietzsche and Voltaire—plus he includes some of his own works. With themes that range from love and loss to unity and transformation, this luminous book will capture your imagination and nourish your soul.
 

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guidance intriguing, and so I followed it. Day after day I concentrated on praying, at first with great mental determination—not petition prayer, but devotional. I followed a practice of hers in which I reflected upon a mystical teaching and waited for something to happen. Like what? you may wonder. I guess I was waiting for what she described as an experience of “quietude.” In other words, I was trying to force a mystical experience. Finally, I gave up and just maintained a prayer practice.

clear O for that night where I in him Might live invisible and dim. —HENRY VAUGHAN SEPTEMBER 9 Lord Creator, and all you His assistants, help us to be able to remember ourselves at all times in order that we may avoid involuntary actions, as only through them can evil manifest itself. —GEORGE GURDJIEFF SEPTEMBER 10 Before thee, Father, In righteousness and humility, With thee, Brother, In faith and courage, In thee, Spirit, In stillness. —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD SEPTEMBER 11 In order to come to

who harbors malice against me: may his joys increase. He who, as my enemy, scatters thorns in my path: May each flower in his life-garden blossom thornless. —ABU-SA’ID ABUL-KHAYR OCTOBER 5 My God, may I cease to live the life of my own spirit so I might live in Your Divine life and in You alone: knowing through Your Light, loving through Your passion, and acting through Your power. —JEAN-JACQUES OLIER OCTOBER 6 O goodness! O Love! O extravagance of tenderness! O God of passion and

comfort of all who sorrow, the strength of all who suffer: Let the cry of those in misery and need come to you, that they may find your mercy present with them in all their afflictions; and give us, we pray, the strength to serve them for the sake of him who suffered for us, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. —THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER DECEMBER 7 May I know, through Your grace, That both of us are a single worshipper Who, through the grace of unity, Bows Himself to His own essence In every

amazed And she will reign over all. —LOGION 2 THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS MARCH 28 O my Lord, If I worship You From fear of hell, burn me in hell. If I worship You From hope of Paradise, bar me from its gates. But if I worship You For yourself alone, Grant me then the beauty of Your face. —RABIA BASRI MARCH 29 Say I take refuge with the Lord of humanity The King of humanity The God of humanity From the evil of the slinking whisperer Who whispers in the breast of humanity And from spirits and

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