By Paulo Coelho
I was out walking one day in São Paulo, when a friend – Edinho – handed me a pamphlet entitled Sacred Moment. Printed in four colours, on excellent paper, with no mention of any particular church or religion, this pamphlet bore only a prayer on its reverse side.
Imagine my surprise when I saw the name of the author of this prayer – ME! It had been published in the early eighties on the inside cover of a book of poetry. I did not think it would stand the test of time, nor that it would return to my hands in such a mysterious way; but when I re-read it, I did not feel ashamed of what I had written.
Because it appeared in that pamphlet and because I believe in signs, I felt it only right to reproduce it here. I hope it encourages every reader to write a prayer of their own, asking for themselves and for others the things that they judge to be most important. That way we place a positive vibration in our heart which touches everything around us.
Here is the prayer:
Lord, protect our doubts, because Doubt is a way of praying. It is Doubt that makes us grow because it forces us to look fearlessly at the many answers that exist to one question. And in order for this to be possible…
Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decisions is a way of praying. Give us the courage, after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible…
Lord, protect our actions, because Action is a way of praying. May our daily bread be the result of the very best that we carry within us. May we, through work and Action, share a little of the love we receive. And in order for this to be possible…
Lord, protect our dreams, because to Dream is a way of praying. Make sure that, regardless of our age or our circumstances, we are capable of keeping alight in our heart the sacred flame of hope and perseverance. And in order for this to be possible…
Lord, give us enthusiasm, because Enthusiasm is a way of praying. It is what binds us to the Heavens and to Earth, to grown-ups and to children, it is what tells us that our desires are important and deserve our best efforts. It is Enthusiasm that reaffirms to us that everything is possible, as long as we are totally committed to what we are doing. And in order for this to be possible…
Lord, protect us, because Life is the only way we have of making manifest Your miracle. May the earth continue to transform seeds into wheat, may we continue to transmute wheat into bread. And this is only possible if we have Love; therefore, do not leave us in solitude. Always give us Your company, and the company of men and women who have doubts, who act and dream and feel enthusiasm, and who live each day as if it were totally dedicated to Your glory.
Amen
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Beautiful!!!!! So inspiring…
I like your prayers very much <3
I never really thought of this. but prayers reflect so much of a person's interior. how a prayer looks is a story for itself.
I like to pray wordless. these prayers just sound better.
& I remember that I have never learned to pray with my words. there were only these standard prayers in church.
AGAPE MOU, AGAPE MOU, AGAPE MOU = Αγάπη μου, αγάπη μου, αγάπη μου = My love, my love, my love! This is what I am saying silently all the time. It is my ‘prayer’. It is what I feel and ‘dress’ all my thoughts and actions with the COLOUR and SOUND of my soul, my LOVE. Because HE IS LOVE and thus I .. create my Cosmos.
LOVE,
Thelma xxx
I love it this prayer!
…and Lord bless Paulo, for he is an inspiration to me!
With love
Barbara
es una oraciòn maravillosa si regresò a sus manos es porque querìa Dios de alguna manera que ud. llegara a nosotros por medio de este blog con dicha oraciòn para aconsejarnos, restaurarnos y darnos apoyo con estas bellas palabras que nos sintièramos nuevamente regocijados de tner vida y de poder sentir entusiasmo y soñar gracias paulo
“THE GOD WITHIN ME CLEARS ALL BLACK SMOKE IN MY HEAD AND ALLOWS HAPPINESS, CLARITY AND JOY FULFILL MY HEART, MIND AND SOUL.”
And So It Is!!!!
I am bread and wine
Life.. love.. joy.. juice.. fish and chips
Eat and be merry
LoveM
German Translation
Das Gebet, das ich vergessen habe
Von Paulo Coelho
Ich war einmal spazieren Tag in São Paulo, als ein Freund – Edinho – mir eine Broschüre mit dem Titel “Heiliger Moment” reichte. Gedruckt in vier Farben, auf hervorragendem Papier, ohne Erwähnung einer bestimmten Kirche oder Religion, trug diese Broschüre nur ein Gebet auf der Rückseite.
Stellen Sie sich meine Überraschung vor, als ich den Namen des Autors dieses Gebetes sah – MICH! Es war in den frühen achtziger Jahren auf der Innenseite eines Gedichtbandes veröffentlicht worden. Ich glaube nicht, dass es den Test der Zeit überstehen, noch dass es auf so geheimnisvolle Weise zurück in meine Hände fallen würde, aber als ich es wieder gelesen hatte, fühlte ich mich nicht beschämt, von dem was ich geschrieben hatte.
Weil es in dieser Broschüre erschien und weil ich an Zeichen glaube, fühlte ich, dass es richtig ist, es hier zu reproduzieren. Ich hoffe, es regt jeden Leser an ein eigenes Gebet zu schreiben, sich zu fragen, was für ihn selbst, und für andere, die Dinge sind, die seiner Meinung nach am wichtigsten sind. Auf diese Weise stellen wir positive Schwingungen in unserem Herzen her, die alles berühren was uns umgibt.
Hier ist das Gebet:
Herr, beschütze unsere Zweifel, weil Zweifel ist eine Art des Betens. Es ist Zweifel, der uns wachsen lässt, der uns die Kraft gibt einen furchtlosen Blick auf die vielen Antworten, die es auf eine Frage zu werfen. Und das dies möglich wird…
Herr, beschütze unsere Entscheidungen, weil Entscheidungen ist eine Art des Betens. Gib uns den Mut, nach unseren Zweifeln, in der Lage zu sein, zwischen einer Straße und einer anderen zu wählen. Möge unser JA immer JA und unser NEIN unsere immer ein NEIN sein. Sobald wir unseren Weg gewählt haben, lass uns nie zurückblicken, noch zulassen, dass unsere Seele von Reue verzehrt wird. Und das dies möglich wird…
Herr, beschütze unser Handeln, denn Handeln ist ein Weg des Betens. Möge unser tägliches Brot das Ergebnis des Besten werden, das wir in uns tragen. Dürfen wir, doch durch Arbeit und Handeln, ein wenig von der Liebe teilen, welche wir erhalten. Und das dies möglich wird…
Herr, beschütze unsere Träume, weil zu träumen eine Art des Betens. Stellen sie doch sicher, dass unabhängig von unserem Alter oder unserer Umstände, wir in der Lage sind, in unseren Herzen die heilige Flamme der Hoffnung und Ausdauer am Brennen zu halten. Und das dies möglich wird…
Herr, gib uns Begeisterung, denn Begeisterung ist eine Art des Betens. Sie ist es, die uns an den Himmel und die Erde bindet, die Erwachsenen und die Kinder, sie sagt uns, dass unsere Wünsche wichtig sind und unsrer beste Leistung verdient. Es ist die Begeisterung, die uns bekräftigt, dass alles möglich ist, solange wir völlig auf das, was wir tun, verpflichtet sind. Und das dies möglich wird…
Herr, beschütze uns, denn das Leben ist der einzige Weg, deine Wunder zu verkünden. Möge die Erde weiterhin Samen in Weizen zu verwandeln, mögen wir weiterhin Weizen zu Brot zu verwandeln. Und dies ist nur möglich, wenn wir Liebe haben, daher lasse uns nicht in der Einsamkeit. Gib uns immer deine Begleitung und die Begleitung von Männern und Frauen, die Zweifel haben, die handeln und träumen und Begeisterung fühlen, und die jeden Tag leben, als wäre er ganz auf deine Herrlichkeit geweiht.
Amen
I enjoy reading the prayer and everyone’s comments and prayers. It lead me to think, when last i prayed, or if i ever prayed? I faintly recall praying to the universe in the rain, but thats all. perhaps it is time for a new prayer.
Tradutore: Traitore…
Paulo: Y para que eso se haga posible… danos Señor la virtud de la Humildad y la Gratitud para saber encontrar en los amigos la chispa de tu palabra. Bendicenos Señor, permitenos mantenernos en contacto con quienes utilizando sus talentos te ayudan a sembrar en este tan vasto mundo.
I never write my prayers down because they are sacred to me, a conversation between this realm and the other. Theese things are so sacred to me it feels that I can´t talk about it … then it´s ruined …. turned into dust. Well it might not be the case for real …. but its like I have my own conversation with God or my guide or whoever Im talking too …. sometimes it seems to be a whole bunch *LOL*. And noone should ever believe me if I told them what I feel and see, so I will keep some things a secret until the world is ready to hear it ;-) When it´s time it´s time …. and it soon I feel. It feels the world is in a big choice of path …. what you choose will effect a lot… the rings of the water.
So we better choice as wise as we can ;-) Everything we do effects the future !!! Where are we going??? What kind of world do we want to live in ??? Be the change you want to have is all I have to say right now <3 namaste <3
En francais
La priere que j’;avais oublie,
Je marchais un jour, a Sao Paulo lorsqu’un ami – Edinho – m’a donne un pamphlet qui s’intitule ‘Instants Sacres’. Imprime en quatre couleurs, sur un papier de tres bonne qualite, sans mentionner aucune eglise ou religion en particulier, ce pamphlet portait seulement une priere au verso,
Imaginez ma surprise, quand j’ai vu quel etait le nom de l’auteur de cette priere ; MOI. Elle avait ete publiee au debut des annees 80 a l’interieur de la couverture d’un livre de poesie. Je ne pensais pas qu’elle aurait resiste a l’epreuve du temps- ni qu’elle reviendrait entre mes mains de cette facon si mysterieuse – Mais lorsque je l’ai relue, je n’ai pas eu honte de ce que j’avais ecrit.
Parce qu’elle a ete publiee dans ce pamphlet et parce que je crois aux signes, je trouve que c’est approprie de la reproduire ici,. J’espere stimuler chaque lecteur a ecrire sa propre priere en demandant pour eux et pour les autres les choses qu’ils jugent les plus importantes. De cette maniere, nous placons une vibration positive dans notre coeur qui touche tout ce qui nous entoure.
Voici la priere :
Seigneur protegez nos decisions parce que prendre des Decisions est une maniere de prier, Donnez-nous le courage apres nos doutes d’etre capable de choisir entre un chemin et un autre. Que notre OUI soit toujours un OUI et notre NON soit toujours un NON. Une fois que nous avons choisi notre chemin, puisse que nous ne regardons pas en arriere ni permettons a notre ame d’etre rongee par le remords. Et pour que cela soit possible…
Seigneur protegez nos actions parce que l’Action est une maniere de prier. Puisse que notre pain quotidien soit le resultat du meilleur qui est en nous. Que nous puissions a travers le travail et l’Action partager un peu de l’amour que nous recevons. Et pour que cela soit possible…
Seigneur protegez nos reves parce que Rever est une maniere de prier. Assurons-nous qu’independamment de l’age ou de nos ciconstances nous sommes capables de conserver allume dans notre coeur la flamme sacree de l’espoir et la perseverance. Et pour que cela soit possible…
Seigneur donnez-nous toujours l’enthousiasme parce que l’enthousiasme est une maniere de prier. C’est ce qui nous lie aux Cieux et a la Terre. aux adultes et aux enfants. C’est ce qui nous dit que les desirs sont importants et meriten nos meilleurs efforts. C’est l’Enthousiasme qui nous re-affirme que tout est possible tant que nous sommes engages pleinement dans ce que nous faisons. Et pour que cela soit possible…
Seigneur protegez-nous parce que la Vie est la seule maniere que nous avons pour manifester Votre miracle. Puisse la Terre continue de transformer les graines en ble que nous continuons a transmuter le ble en pain,. Et ceci est seulement possible si nous avons l’Amour, alors ne nous laissez pas en solitude. Donnez-nous toujours Votre compagnie et la compagnie d’hommes et de femmes qui ont des doutes, qui agissent et revent et sont enthousiastes et qui vivent chaque jour comme s’ils etaient completement devoues a Votre gloire.
Thank you for this special prayer, it is so very dear to me…
Here is my prayer :
(Saying I , I mean to include every one of you, all mankind, as one entity.)
Dear Lord,
I call upon your protection.
I kindly ask for your protection.
Help me live every moment as if it’s my first
as the deer searches for the streams of water
so my soul needs to satisfy its thirst
from Your living water.
Let Love be the fountain from which
all my thoughts and words
and all my actions and dreams spring.
And when voices of doubts and fear arise
let Love’s sweet whisper cancel them out
and bring light .
Help me live every moment as if it’s my last
so that I don’t forget to honor this very moment
this life
for as long as my song lasts
Love and Gratitude
Annie
Si no tenemos rencor, ni enjuiciamos; si no tenemos rabia,odio, orgullo,vanidad:Señor protégenos aunque nos hayamos quedado secos de amorprotégenos.
The words you write resonate to my heart with a light that I feel as it is mine, feeling so close to your heart.
Right now I decided to share with every one I can these words from my heart, but they are also a prayer for me. A prayer to my beloved twin guardian angel.
“To my precious guardian, tween angel:
I LOVE YOU! <3
For all the times you've given me your protection and warmth,
For all the times you've never stopped telling me you love me whenever I couldn't,
For all the desperate nights I'd spent crying desperately and you gave me consolation,
For all the times and days I wanted to end my life and you brought peace in my soul,
For all the love you gave me when I thought it was God's big hand full of love,
For all these days and years that you took so much care of my broken soul,
For all the times you've guided me in this reality giving me answers,
For all the times you've protected me from great risks,
For never stopping telling me what's in my heart and what is it like,
For always showing me how the light of my dreams is like,
Just for being there for me ALWAYS,
I AM SO GRATEFUL, although I know I will never be able to repay you for all this,
So please I ask for your patience if I draw into desperation, for you are my greatest and loving support.
I LOVE YOU AND WISH TO SEE YOUR IMAGE SOME DAY! "
My only hope and reward for my angel now is to do it through the accomplishments of my DREAMS, as soon as I find my treasure. Since in this is what I strongly believe:
"May our daily bread be the result of the very best that we carry within us."
LOVE :)
Dear paolo,
First i want to apologize for my englisch.
Today i had a lots of doubts.
People really hurt me today, i was loseing my fait.
My fait in myself, in my angels and god.
I know you talk about signs, when i went home i look up to the sky and ask please god, i dont now it anymore please give me a sign.
When i came home i open your blog and i read your pray.
I thank you from the bottem of my heart.
Love Ellen from holland
sr. coelho
yo podria decir que hace un tiempo tuve dudas acerca de mi fe
senti que el mundo se caia sobre mi cabeza dude tanto pues en las religiones siempre hablan de lo malo que te pasara por ser un pecador (no seguir sus reglas) y me preguntaba por que tienes que pensar como los demas para er salvo? o por que ser de una religion espesifica? o ir a sierta iglesia? despues con el tiempo descubri que dios esta en el interior de cada uno de nosotros en nuestras acciones como usted escribio en uno de sus libros “el cielo no esta echo de palabras sino de acciones” y aveces es logico que se dude pero es la naturaleza humana pero aun asi siempre hay fe y esperanza en nuestros corazones para enfrentar los retos y salir victoriosos de ellos como un guerrero por que eso somos todos y no tenemos ninguna opcion.
le envio mi mayor admiracion.
Quelle magnifique prière où tout est dit en quelques phrases. Que Dieu nous donne la force de transmettre chaque jour l’Amour qu’il nous donne et que nous reconnaissons dans les yeux de l’Autre. Cette force nous aide à garder l’enthousiasme de la jeunesse, malgré le temps qui passe, et à poursuivre notre rêve jusqu’au terme de ce chemin. Que cette vie ne soit qu’Amour. M Ch Grimard
Finnaly feels like I found home. I can feel a lot of harmony by visiting your page. Thank You!
Love,
Marianne
Paolo ,
Whatever you write fascinates me .
I am the person who is made from your words.
And my family knows about it .
Live Long and keep us alive with your words
Love You
Jayanta
Beautiful!! it touchs my heart!
Why don’t we say that prayer tonight? let’s say at 9 p.m. everywhere in the world.
wherever we’ll be, in every place we’ ll be, let’s stop for a while and say this prayer.
We’ll “stop the world” for a while, and let those beautiful words be engraved in the Book of Time.
Good ” Sol invictus” evening everybody. (i.e. Halloween in ancient latin Tradition).
Chris
Thank you for your wonderful prayer. A prayer is a gift, and I would like to give back a little.
Thank you Father, that you gave me this life
Thank you Father, for the love
Thank you Father, for my friends and family, for all which cross my path, may your blessings be on them,
Thank you Father, for the opportunities you’ve given me
Thank you Father, for the dead leaves in autumn, because I know the trees will blossom again,
Thank you Father, for your sense of humor
(Especially I would like to thank for the invention of beer)
Thank you Father for the beauty and poetry of this world
Thank you Father, that you are with me in the darkness that surrounds each from time to time,
Thank you Father, for the hope that people will go the right way, as brothers and sisters, in harmony with nature
Thank you Father for all that surrounds me
I ask for your blessing and protection for me and for everyone, for your creation
Amen
I wish you all a wonderful day
Dear Paulo…This is one of million other messages which You write every day.. I know that. But I want to say- THANK YOU. Thats all… You must to know, that You changed my life.
Greetings from Poland.
Kisses,
– If you can find 5 minutes to send me a short email, I will be honored. I want to know, that You readed my message.. Master. :-)
Amém! Oração linda.
Gosto da etimologia da palavra entusiasmo, e lendo sua oração hoje foco nessa parte.
Q Deus te abençoe Guerreiro amado.
A Brisa sopra forte em suas palavras
Ótima segunda.
Bjão S2
This prayer has inspired me in so many ways.. I read it at a time when I needed to find myself. Please be reassured that you have touched and changed lives for the better. You sure changed mine with your work! God Bless
Thank you for a very-well constructed prayer. Very inspiring.
Poulo,
Im a doubter!
And I believe I’m praying.
My prayer to God
I stoop to pick up the old rusty lantern and set off along the dark, winding lanes, with only faith in love to illumine my path. I thank thee for the courage to walk this narrow road away from the blinding glitter of the illusionary world. The darkness is soothing, for here, away from superficial glitter, the little, but strong flame of pure, immaculate truth in my heart will burn for long… “Black” lends a new delight to the shining lights, to beautiful sights and mighty heights. Though it may not dazzle the eye, or beget a flush of emotions, though it is only like a soft whisper…it begets the struggle to reach for light from darkness, which has great healing powers. Beneath the velvety darkness of the firmament, spangled with stars of my goals, I offer my flame, my verve and vigor to your service. This service will always “come before self”. Accept my offering to thee and grant that as I burn, my radiance may illumine others’ path.
Dear Paulo,
In some way the prayer touched me, though the first lines made me a bit confused… because doubt doesn’t force me to look fearlessly at the many answers that exist, instead it makes me feel fear and insecurity. Sometimes I just want to ask: “God, are You there…?” It’s painful to admit this, but it’s so hard to not know if God wants to answer my prayers or not…
the mere fact that you said “God, are you there?” proves that you are praying and is very much connected with God. The fears you’re having are just attachments of your doubts. detach from those fears and then proceed to the next part of the prayer, make the decision. :)
Last night and this morning I was filled with DOUBT. My first inclination was to bat it away, like a nuisance. But part of my current lesson is allowing and accepting the parts of me that are not always so certain and in control. Surely in the privacy and intimacy of my own thoughts, I can allow doubt, not to rule but to have it’s moment.
I did, however, pray for the spiritual brothers. Are you familiar with the Tibetan thangkas? Anyway, I prayed for protection from nonproductive thinking! And I was lead to your post “From the Prayer-book of Medieval Chivalry,” which had a link to this one.
Thank you for being the answer to my prayer!
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PRAYER FOR YOU
Prayer for You
This is a perfect moment. It’s a perfect moment because I have been inspired to say a gigantic prayer. I’ve been roused to unleash a divinely greedy, apocalyptically healing prayer for each and every one of you—even those of you who don’t believe in the power of prayer.
And so I am starting to pray right now to the God of Gods … the God beyond all Gods … the Girlfriend of God … the Teacher of God … the Goddess who invented God.
DEAR GODDESS, you who never kill but only change:
I pray that my exuberant, suave, and accidental words will move you to shower ferocious blessings down on everyone who reads this benediction.
I pray that you will give them what they don’t even know they need—not just the boons they think they want but everything they’ve always been afraid to even imagine or ask for.
DEAR GODDESS, you wealthy anarchist burning heaven to the ground:
Many of the divine chameleons out there don’t even know that their souls will live forever.
So please use your brash magic to help them see that they are all wildly creative geniuses too big for their own personalities.
Guide them to realize that they are all completely different from what they’ve been led to believe about themselves, and more exciting than they can possibly imagine.
Make it illegal, immoral, irrelevant, unpatriotic, and totally tasteless for them to be in love with anyone or anything that’s no good for them.
O GODDESS, you who give us so much love and pain mixed together that our morality is always on the verge of collapsing:
I beg you to cast a boisterous love spell that will nullify all the dumb ideas, bad decisions, and nasty conditioning that have ever cursed the wise and sexy virtuosos out there.
Remove, banish, annihilate, and laugh into oblivion any jinx that has clung to them, no matter how long they’ve suffered from it, and even if they have become accustomed or addicted to its ugly companionship.
Please conjure an aura of protection around them so that they will receive an early warning if they are ever about to act in such a way as to bring another hex or plague into their lives in the future.
DEAR GODDESS, sweet Goddess, you sly universal virus with no freaking opinion:
Please help all the personal growth addicts out there to become disciplined enough to go crazy in the name of creation, not destruction.
Teach them the difference between oppressive self-control and liberating self-control.
Awaken in them the power to do the half-right thing when it is impossible to do the totally right thing.
Arouse the Wild Woman within them—even if they’re men.
DEAR GODDESS, you pregnant slooth who scorns all mediocre longing:
I pray that you will inspire all the compassionate rascals communing with this prayer to kick their own asses and wash their own brains.
Provoke them to throw away or give away all the things they own that encourage them to believe that they are better than anyone else.
Show them how much fun it is to brag about what they cannot do and do not have.
Give them bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems.
Most of all, Goddess, brainwash them with your freedom so that they never love their own pain more than anyone else’s pain.
O GODDESS, you wildly disciplined, radically curious, shockingly friendly, fanatically balanced, mysteriously truthful, teasingly healing, lyrically logical master of rowdy bliss:
Cultivate in yourself a fervent yearning for the intimate companionship of these budding messiahs. Play with them every day. Answer their questions. Listen to their stories. Inspire them to love you so much they lose all their hatred forever.
DEAR GODDESS, you psychedelic mushroom cloud at the center of all our brains:
Bless the insanely poised creators out there with lucid dreams while they are wide awake. Provide them with their own spin doctors, and vacuum cleaners for their magic carpets, and solar-powered sex toys that work even in the dark.
Give them a knack for avoiding other people’s hells, and a thousand masks that all represent their true feelings, and secret admirers who are not psychotic stalkers.
Arrange for a racehorse to be named after them, or an underground river, or a thousand-year-old storm on Saturn.
Teach them to be their own prophets and pray to themselves and right their own wrongs and sing their own songs and be their own wives and save their own lives.
DEAR GODDESS, you riotously tender, hauntingly reassuring, orgiastically sacred feeling that is even now running through all of our soft, warm animal bodies:
I pray that you provide all the original sinners out there with a license to bend and even break all rules, laws, and traditions that keep them apart from the things they love.
Show them how to purge the wishy-washy wishes that distract them from their daring, dramatic, divine desires.
And teach them that they can have anything they want if they’ll only ask for it in an unselfish way.
And now dear God of Gods, God beyond all Gods, Girlfriend of God, Teacher of God, Goddess who invented God, I bring this prayer to a close, trusting that in these mysterious moments you have begun to change everyone out there in the exact way they’ve needed to change in order to become the gorgeous geniuses they were born to be. Amen. Awomen.
Rob Brezney (copied from an email sent me last week)
Hi there,
may I ask you the meaning of the symbol in your blog? looks like an up side down cross; I sort of don’t like it, I mean the meaning, but if it’s different, then I shall change my view.
thanks
freddie OFM
it is a sun with a sword in front of it, the symbol of the warriors of light.
Hey Jay,
Thanks, that’s what I was getting at. Interpretation. I guess then, by default, you’d have to believe in signs to see them. Otherwise one could simple dismiss these signs as mere coincidence. Guess there isn’t a right or wrong answer but a matter of personal belief. That’s what makes the game of life so confusing for many of us, there aren’t any concrete rules. Hmm, this is my experience anyways.
Ana,
I would call the emotional ties memories or imprints of the previous relationship. A sign, as I would see it would be, for example, the ex’s initials painted plainly in the sky….before heavy rain, or with a lovely sunset – interpretation is individual/personal that is God’s way of speaking to us all as individuals.
Love J
i was touched by the prayer….had it copied and pasted to a friend’s account immediately ( need i asked first your permission?)
the prayer captured what i want to ask God when i am most vulnerable and unsure of what i want to do especially when what i think may bring major changes in my life. i sent it to a friend who is undergoing great preparation for his vocation in life.
sometimes when i am heavy with emotions, i need somebody to verbalize what i want to say. mr coelho, you did just that in your prayer….should i say OUR prayer.
OF COURSE you and everybody have the permission do forward the prayer. It belongs to the Sould of the World. Love Paulo
After all these years, your beatiful words returned to your hand, when you less expected, what a beatiful sign!
Thanks for this prayer and all your positive vibrations!
Signs. I’m not sure about them. Then again I am not sure about a lot of things in life, including the existance of god. This article got me thinking about a scenario.
Do you know how after the end of a relationship, for a little while at least, everything would remind us of that person? Walking by a favourite restaurant, a song or something as simple as a feeling or thought.
Would you consider those signs? What of a situation where the relationship ought to end and has, but these recurring feelings and thoughts keep coming back.
Could these not simply be memories as opposed to signs? Or could it be that I am completely missing the idea of what signs are?
Thank you for your writing, your books, and your prayer. I love the thanks writing to Bush. =)
Admiro demais vc!!Sou sua fã…
Namastê
Thank you for this beautiful prayer Paulo.
God Bless you
Love,
Celia
xx
I hope this prayer will reach to as many wandering souls as possible so that they can also get a peace of mind.
I am one of them & I hope from today onwards I should move towards the inner peace.
I loved this prayer.
Thank you xx
Hiya,
I enjoyed these all these prayers;
Paulo, I was touched by that prayer the first time I read it, and recently almost broke my feeble fingers/brain trying to re-locate and then Bookmark, angel a’s blog-link, so that I had a permanent copy…..
With your permission, thus requested, or without? (passive, too busy to reply, obviously okay….) I WOULD LIKE TO reproduce a leaflet, just like the one you saw at home, here in UK, non-denominational just The Prayer…..
– I think it takes extra special skill to write a prayer, which is to say everything one needs/wants to say each time it is prayed/read or passed onto someone…that’s probably why we learn to pray as conversation with Our God..he listens to the heart at the moment of praying…as well as the words we speak. – that’d be why Edinho was handing it out on paper.
Blessings and Love to All,
LJ xx
Hello, Leaf
of course you have my permission. Love Paulo
My prayer to God
I stoop to pick up the old rusty lantern and set off along the dark, winding lanes, with only faith in love to illumine my path. I thank thee for the courage to walk this narrow road away from the blinding glitter of the illusionary world. The darkness is soothing, for here, away from superficial glitter, the little, but strong flame of pure, immaculate truth in my heart will burn for long… “Black” lends a new delight to the shining lights, to beautiful sights and mighty heights. Though it may not dazzle the eye, or beget a flush of emotions, though it is only like a soft whisper…it begets the struggle to reach for light from darkness, which has great healing powers. Beneath the velvety darkness of the firmament, spangled with stars of my goals, I offer my flame, my verve and vigor to your service. This service will always “come before self”. Accept my offering to thee and grant that as I burn, my radiance may illumine others’ path.
I love this prayer
dear god,
may you be our will
our only obsession
in our dreams and our wakefulness
our only longing to fulfill you
willing to do anything
that we should and should not
willing to offer ourselves
another life if need be
here now that you are happening
o Glorious paulo
may our glory and grace
stir the sleeping hordes
into wakefulness and light
now that you have happened
and the gift of life is still with us
what shall we do with ourselves
have lived the peaks for too long
time to graze the valley of life
bo0om
fLUXman
Loved the prayer! Sent it a forward to the two dearest persons I know.
What I absolutely loved also… is this sentence:
“Imagine my surprise when I saw the name of the author of this prayer – ME!”
the “ME!” capitalized with the exclamation mark is so expressive of your happiness, i could almOst feel that particular feeling and that particular moment.
Thank you for the smile : )
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