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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer - Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to our prayers.
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0:00.0 | Greetings. |
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0:25.8 | Namaste friends and welcome. |
0:29.6 | This evening's reflection is entitled Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer. |
0:36.8 | And I'll begin with a bit of personal background that I grew up, my family was a Unitarian. |
0:43.6 | So I attended the liberal religious youth, which is the church school where we as teens |
0:50.3 | we'd gather. |
0:51.9 | And we had spirited discussions about comparative religion and social issues. |
0:57.9 | It's intellectual, not focused on a deity, and very explicitly respectful of different |
1:05.5 | views. |
1:06.5 | Of course, there are many Unitarian, that's you, you, as Unitarian jokes that were circulating |
1:13.1 | such as how Moses received the Ten Suggestions. |
1:19.4 | And one true story I heard, one person shared that I was brought up Unitarian. |
1:24.2 | I heard the minister say God one time. |
1:27.6 | He had come to our house and he said, oh God, I forgot my pipe. |
1:33.7 | So in my family, no formal religious rituals. |
1:39.2 | We had moments of silence for gratitude at meals and holidays. |
1:43.8 | And my parents were most reverential in nature, really. |
1:49.0 | They'd come into true stillness and silence when they were bird watching. |
1:53.9 | And my father liked to take pictures of birds and his most fervent prayer probably was |
2:00.8 | please hold still so I can get the shot. |
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