Light the Flame: 365 Days of Prayer
Language: English
Pages: 404
ISBN: 1401943136
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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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