How exactly do you pray?
I pray three times a day – when I wake up, then at 18h and when I go to bed. These are conventional prayers that I do every single day – since I think that it is very important to be rigorous in the spiritual quest.
Having said this, I see myself praying many times throughout the day – sometimes because of an unexpected joy, sometimes because of my fears, sometimes because of a wish I need to make. More importantly, I pray through my work that I perform with great love, and through my life. To live intensively and with joy is the best way of praying.
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Oh… Pavlik…. silly me! :)
Santosh, You’re so welcome! I like fruits! :)
xxoo
I have periods when I pray when I woke-up in the morning, in my bed, recollecting my thoughts, then it can be anywhere or anytime, then I pray at night in bed too and think of the positive outcomes of the day.
I like to listen to the sound of the birds early in the morning and the clock,it is a bit like a prayer to me too- keeps me in the moment -
Carolena,
Thank you very much, appreciated ! :)
Well- I like your story of ants.
“Sometimes we just know and if we ask them with truth in words and deeds,you are ready to get fruits from seeds.”
-Mybheja
God bless you !
Carolena….
no, one woman did this path to get the beetles out of the kitchen…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416212/
Nice movie, by the way :-)
Pavlik,
the bee did that? made the candie path? interesting!
xxoo
wonderful- just wonderful mr. Paulo, u sound so natural, i just love the way u describe ur words,
i also pray every nite b4 going to sleep- as i feel that once i fall a sleep this pray is so much in my sub conscious
and i think also that its very important to thank G-d even b4 starting the real praying,,, at least thats my way!
and it feels so good and peacful.
salut to all of u!
By counting my blessings and expressing gratitude.
“…For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive.
And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.
I cannot teach you how to pray in words.
God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains.
But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart…”
Khalil Gibran
well that’s how I pray: I sit on my bed at night before I get to sleep (not every day, not every month…there is no exact time Interval).. totaly in the darkness..I close my eyes just try to feel me alive! maybe just try to listen to my heart! or think about the last times…what i did ? what i could have done better? what was right? what was wrong?
well I don’t know if you’ll call this prayer or meditation :D
Carolena…your story about ants reminded me one scene from a movie I recently viewed – “Secreret life of bees”. One of the characters, to avoid hurting cockroaches, made a path of candies which led them out of the house….
thank you for these words
Santosh,
that is a nice prayer, i like it!
I used to pray at times when I needed help, or my friends were in trouble, I’d pray intensely asking for help. And I’d always be helped and when I prayed for my friends, usually they be helped.
I used to meditate a lot, even from my teenage years, even in the silence, there is prayer. Not asking for anything, just being and letting go, is a prayer.
Now, I don’t actively pray so much, because every minute, I am with God. I am prayer itself. I live in my prayer and in the beauty of life, in appreciation for life.
There’s prayer in my yoga, yoga in my daily ways, all connected!
One day many years ago, I came home from school and on my desk, I saw an army of ants. I must have left something sweet on the table, but they had crawled from the wall, up my desk and all over my desk.
I talked to them, and told them that they have to go back where they came from or it wouldn’t be so good for them otherwise. They all went back, all of them, and I didn’t hurt any of them. I only spoke to them and tapped on the desk!
:D
The constant unison with ..our Father, LOVE.
LOVE,
Thelma
I think the biggest problem when people pray for someting is that when they get what they want they stop praying & forget. I haven’t prayed in a long time, but now I will try and start to pray, because I really need to now.
I do like to pray but keep it to myself. People around me do not talk about praying…I’m not sure how I got into it. It is a sense of freedom.
Hope, enjoy your trip your comment was nice to read. Enjoy the search and the travel.
Dear all,
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O Lord !
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O lord, O mightly God !
I am begger and blind
Shall I see ever, my daughter dine?
O Lord, I am protitute and a mother
When would I be free,
Should I ask from Brothel or Vine?
O lord, I am Student without degree
I hate exams, lectures and lessons
Will I ever get support of such a shine?
O lord, Are you listening !
My Prayers full of wishes for her
Will I feel love forever
That I would share with my bright side
O lord, Please give me this or that
Let the world be stable and Peace
Harmony, non-violence and dreamer’s
Those should brighten, all light !
O Lord, I pray two time, three times
I know you hear me, most of the times
O Lord, Whoever you are
Whatever people call you
I beg you to show sunlight !
O lord, I beg you to listen
Old beggar, needs his eyes
Student, needs to re-invent
Prostitute needs acceptance, freedom
Listen to them, Dear Lord !
I am the giver as you are
I am the care taker as you are
O lord, Give me nothing
Instead take my everything
Givem them all, they need!
O lord you are so beautiful
Crystal and Bright
World needs your wisdom,
World is hungry for your givings
You have plenty to share
O lord, O thee, Amen !
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God bless you all !
Thanks for reminding me that I need to get back to my morning routine of prayer, jappa (sort of like the Catholic ritual of the Rosary), and meditation. I used to, for many years, do this every morning, first thing, upon rising. And I really think the quality of my life, as well as my relationship with the Divine was greatly enhanced by it.
I do pray throughout the day, much as you describe, Paulo, but I find that in those prayers, the subject is frequently me and not God. Those prayers, as opposed to the prayers and jappa upon rising, tend to focus on “me” in the present situation or circumstances. I think that it is currently this more selfless form of adoration and worship that is missing from my life. I must get back to it.
I’ve never really prayed until now,until 2 days ago.I’ve never really asked for protection,I let myself being “invaded” by so many different energies and not good ones too,until I did (and sure someone helped ;))did found that,no words can describe it,now I know this is the right path.I have found life.So when distress will be on my way again through eyes on someone else,I will try the best to enlight that and pray for that person and myself not to keep that energy in me or around me.Praying is powerful and the best protection ever.It took me 28 years to know that,see miracles can really happen.So thank you from with all my heart and soul.
Thank you for answering my question, Paulo.
Love from Bulgaria.
=)
Eventhough i talk to God i don’t pray like before,coz now i realized that,i m not living my life.Once i was talking with papa about heaven and he said,it is like earth but in heaven,people do work and they are so happy to do that work,they love the work they enjoy doing it,and they are not forced like on earth.Then i realised that i was living in hell right now.I am finding hard to fight the thoughts on other people’s reaction on me but once i will find my happiness which is out there then i hope i will find my heaven too like u have found yours.
I realised the reason he came to talk to me was coz i was living in hell all my life for other people and stopped living for myself and how can God’s see his own child in hell.He is doing everyhing to make me to go to heaven(on earth) even if it means to make me be humilated coz that is the only way that will make me run away from hell.
Last night i had a visoon,where i saw msyelf in an orcahard.There were fruits lots of fruits ,every fruit you can imagine,they were full of fruits every trees,and i was so overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of it,i couldn;t count or recognize it anymore.And the trees never stopped.And then suddenly i said to myself father had planted these many fruits for me to harvest later.someone opened one fruit infact a guy did that for me maybe he was Jesus the caretake of that fruit opened one fruit for me and that was one unique fruit.Inside the fruit was a spiral pipe alreday connecetd to it,that means my harvest would be so good that no one can havelike that.I mean usually people get fruits, peel them off then make juice and then they put straw to drink but inside by fruits the straw was beautifully planted when they were fruits inside the plant.
Next week i am burrowing money and heading to unknown destination and i dunno where and how will i land there.All i know is my treasure is waiting for me and i am taking all humilation to get my treasure for which i will be praised for generation in future.But i amnot for that i am going there to find my happiness.Thank u paulo for your inspiring words atleast it has helped me to launch myself in the journey in which i was really scared to take the initial step.
hope