How Do You Pray?: Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists and Other Lovers of Humanity

by Celeste Yacoboni

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One hundred and eight well-known spiritual leaders respond to the question, ""How do you pray?""

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This really is a nice collection of writings on prayer by thoughtful people, representing a range of traditions. What kept it to only three stars rather than four was the repetitiveness which set in after a while. I ended up skimming a lot toward the end of the book.

Personally, I most appreciated the contributions by Jewish writers. They were the ones which provided me with the most new insights and ideas. (

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jsabrina | Jul 13, 2021 |

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Let's start with the definition of prayer, the most classical definition that you start to learn in Sunday School: "the lifting up of heart and mind to God."

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"People say to me sometimes, 'How come my prayer isn't being answered?' And I tell them 'You hang up the phone too soon.' It's necessarry to sit for a while and to get the action directive, the marching orders for the day." -- Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (page 12)

"Art is prayer made visible

Music is prayer made audible

Dance is prayer embodied

But the greatest art we practice

Is the art of Compassion

Which is prayer in action and service."

-- Gina Rose Halpern (page 161)

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