Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World
Ebook
Every man prays in his own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. —Duke Ellington
This interfaith book provides insight from various religious and cultural texts and a wide range of writings, touching on our pain and inspiring the healer within each of us. These words remind us of hope and faith, so that we may live a deeper, more meaningful, and fully self-expressed life. During moments that are filled with despair, illness, depression, or spiritual longing, this treasury creates a healing space and draws on the power of wise devotionals for reflection and deep meditation.
Embrace physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation through Prayers for Healing, drawing from a select collection of influential spiritual leaders, thinkers, and sacred books, including the Tao Te Ching, the Koran, the Torah, Native American texts, the Bible, Thich Nhat Hanh, Wendell Berry, Jack Kornfield, Rumi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marianne Williamson, and many more.
“I hope that people of all faiths as well as those who do not believe in a religion will find inspiration and understanding here that in some way contributes to their own inner peace.” —The Dalai Lama
- Title: Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World
- Authors: The Dalai Lama, Larry Dossey, Maggie Oman
- Publisher: Conari Press
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781642502893, 9781642502886, 164250288X, 1642502898
- Resource ID: LLS:9781642502893
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-05T17:12:35Z
Rev. Maggie Oman Shannon, M.A., is an ordained Unity minister, spiritual director, workshop and retreat facilitator, and author of six books including works such as One God, Shared Hope and The Way We Pray, editor of Prayers for Healing and coauthor of A String and a Prayer. In 2000, Oman Shannon founded The New Story, a coaching and consulting business focused on helping people create deeper meaning in their lives.
Ordained as a Unity minister in 2014, she has had the honor of serving as the spiritual leader of Unity Spiritual Center of San Francisco since January 2010.
Oman Shannon lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
Larry Dossey, MD, is the author of One Mind: Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters. A distinguished physician, Dr. Dossey is among the most influential and creative leaders worldwide in bringing scientific understanding to spirituality. He is the author of a number of profound books on spirituality in healing, including the New York Times bestseller Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, and The Power of Premonitions. In One Mind, considered one the most innovative books of our time, Dr. Dossey draws on spiritual wisdom traditions, great philosophers, personal experiences, and the sciences to make the case for a universal consciousness or One Mind that connects us all.
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, was born in 1935 to a peasant family in northeastern Tibet and was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. The world's foremost Buddhist leader, he travels extensively, speaking eloquently in favor of ecumenical understanding, kindness and compassion, respect for the environment, and, above all, world peace.