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We would not stop this quest until we finally looked within and discovered the realm of the sacred—inside ourselves. I believe we are emerging into the organic era of the Divine: the era when we will finally recognize that the laws of mysticism and nature are coded into our blood and bones.
The Divine is all creation. Nothing exists outside this holy light. All is creation, and all creation is conscious. Look up, sideways, or within and you will never see anything outside the nature and power of the Divine. I converse with this God of life all the time. In prayer I share my thoughts, my problems, my dilemmas, and my musings. I have learned to attune my inner world to the subtle nature of heaven: the way it whispers and guides us, the way it waits until we are ready to respond, the way it blocks us from our own foolishness, and the way it lets us create our own mistakes or become masters of our own genius.
Introduction The Power of Prayer
Yet even as prayer is our primal language, it is also a lost language.
The power of the Divine is, and always has been, pure power, transcendent of human imagery.
Too few of us understand how this connection—or lack thereof—influences our thinking, decision making, and even our health. Too few of us understand that without the grace that is carried by sacred language, our souls will literally starve.
The childhood story “The Princess and the Pea” comes to mind. The princess kept stacking mattresses on top of a small pea, yet she could still feel it, which prevented her from sleeping. That pea is our holy interior.
Yet the sacred still calls to us. We will never feel quite right, never quite at peace, until we are communicating with our own soul, and the cosmos, regularly. At the end of the day, we are sacred beings. We forget that at great peril to ourselves.
When we do not know what we believe in—when we do not feel empowered to have an intimate, personal, conversational relationship with God—we are susceptible to believing the most potent voice in the room. And sometimes that voice comes carrying a darkness unimaginable.
When we pray, we ask the Divine to show us how to see, how to speak, how to create. We ask God to reveal, to illuminate, the right path for us. God, show me how to see this. Reveal your wisdom to me, Lord. Show me the way. One word will do. One word is all I need. Then, suddenly, the word hope arises in you. Or patience. This word, this revelation, becomes the most holy word you have. You can hang on to it; you can use it to guide you. This is the true meaning of prayer: a request for help in how to see.
AI Summary
Intimate Conversations With the Divine by Caroline Myss presents key insights from the contemplative tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
Core Themes:
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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