<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459758" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Prayer beyond praying for</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes, perhaps, the question, <br>what is prayer? Am I missing <br>something too precious, not to know of? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don’t ask. Instead, <br>peel a potato; scrub a carrot; <br>find there, prayer – </div><div style="margin:10px 0">all your senses, all your faculties, <br>seeking the very source of things; <br>finding their own source; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">focussed to a fine fine point <br>on knowledge; consciousness; and bliss; <br>and love; let’s not forget the love; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">that’s prayer. Standing very still by <br>the childbed, the marriage bed, or the deathbed – <br>your whole being concentrated in a fine fine point; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so many perfections found to be <br>in so many perfect places, <br>in so many moments out of passing time. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And in the stillness after action, <br>prayer was there before you sought. <br>You were always prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">* </div><div style="margin:10px 0">[after a thought from Plotinus]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459758" data-title="Prayer beyond praying for de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Sometimes, perhaps, the question, what is prayer? Am I missing something too precious, not to know of? Don’t ask. Instead, peel a potato; scrub a carrot; find there, prayer – all your senses, all your faculties, seeking the very sourc..."></div> </div> </div>

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