What Are They Saying?

“With practice, you can develop the habit of praying silent ‘breath prayers'”
Rick Warren, from his web site, pastors.com

“[U]se ‘breath prayers’throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath.” Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Life, p. 89.

“I built myself a prayer room–a tiny sanctuary in a basement closet filled with books on spiritual disciplines, contemplative prayer, and Christian mysticism. In that space I lit candles, burned incense, hung rosaries, and listened to tapes of Benedictine monks. I meditated for hours on words, images, and sounds. I reached the point of being able to achieve alpha brain patterns…” Mike Perschon, Youth Specialties , December 2004

“Choose a sacred word or phrase. Consistently use the same word throughout the prayer. Begin silently to repeat your sacred word or phrase” Mark Yaconelli

“Pick out a word or two. Tell your children to sit quietly and repeat the word in their heads – not thinking about the word, just repeating it.” >Pope John Paul

“… a little phrase that Love inspires,” letting a word, phrase or image repeat itself quietly deep inside us as we go through our daily activities.” Gerald May (Shalem Institute)

“What works for me is a combination of disciplines: I do yoga, tai chi which is a Chinese martial art and three kinds of meditation – vipasana, transcendental and mantra (sound) meditation.” Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul

Alpha is the springboard for all psychic and magical workings. It is the heart of witchcraft”. Lori Cabot, Power Of The Witch

“The quiet repetition of a single word can help us to descend with the mind into the heart.” Henri Nouwen

“When we go to the center of our being and pass through that center into the very center of God we get in immediate touch with this divine creating energy … that the divine energy may have the freedom to forward the evolution of consciousness in us and through us, as a part of the whole, in the whole of the creation.” M. Basil Pennington

“This mystical stream [contemplative prayer and other monastic traditions] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.” Tilden Edwards (Shalem Institute)

“We’re rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion, as a way of life.” Rob Bell, Teaching Pastor Mars Hill Bible Church, from “The Emergent Mystique,” CT

“Contemplative prayer is nothing other than coming into consciousness of what is already there [divinity in all].” Brennan Manning, The Signature of Jesus

“Spiritual ecstasy. The third phase of contemplative prayer … a supernatural trance state …”
Charisma magazine, Oct. 2004

“When I started on the path of witch, my teachers stressed to me the importance of meditation. Not only is it a skill that witches should learn to help with spells and rituals, but meditation all by itself is quite magickal.” Christopher Penczak

“I began practicing meditation, specifically breath prayer, once again. I integrated the use of Tai Chi and yoga” John Michael Talbot,Interview with Christianity Today 10/22/2001

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