Word: prayers
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Fasting and flagellation, sensory deprivation and repetitive prayer, may indeed have produced chemical or metabolic changes as preconditions of samadhi, satori, or the beatific vision. It has even been suggested that many extremes of asceticism were developed because, for some reason, drugs ceased to be available. But, to the orthodox Christian, "technological" or "chemical" mysticism is either blasphemous or absurd. The man who gets to a mountaintop in a funicular has the same view as the man who climbs the peak, but the effort of getting there is important too; the vision is not all, and manuals of contemplation often...
Cushing's imprimatur means that the Oxford Bible can be freely read by Catholics for prayer and study-and use of the RSV even in Catholic worship is not out of the question. Many Catholic ecumenists believe that this Protestant-sponsored translation, which preserves much of the King James Version's stately prose, is the best all-round Bible available today, and one that most Christians can agree upon as an acceptable rendering of God's word...
Often clasping his hands in a gesture of prayer, the Buddhist priest spoke bluntly, but in a soft and hesitant English. "I am a messenger from the suffering peasants in South Vietnam," Nhat Hanh announced, "and I have come here to tell you that the war must stop...
Time magazine has quoted Reston's mother as saying he was only dissuaded from becoming a professional golfer immediately after high school, by "prayer and argument." Reston, on the other hand, says he was "never really interested" in anything but reporting...
...dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...