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What is Prayer All About?
A person praying is a standing paradox, a swaying contradiction, a self
divided. The body is praying for life and existence; the soul
is praying to escape life, to transcend existence
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This, then, is the secret of prayer: The entire world may be ripping apart at the seams, but the beseecher’s heart and mouth are at peace as one. And then that peace spreads outward into all things.
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In Jewish tradition, prayer is an activity with distinctly violent connotations . . .
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Think of prayer as G-d talking to Himself -- through you
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The English word for prayer is a poor conveyer of the true meaning of these three acitions.
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I know that I am her mother and know far better than she what's good and what's bad for her. But whether or not her limited view of reality is a valid one, is irrelevant: to her, her pain is real
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