Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World (Meditations for Healing, Sacred Writings)

by Maggie Oman Shannon M. A., Larry Dossey (Foreword by), Dalai Lama (Introduction)

Overview

Prayers for Healing demonstrates the transformative nature woven through the power of prayer and wisdom, drawing from a select collection of influential spiritual leaders, philosophers and thinkers of our time that include The Tao Te Ching, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Torah, Rumi, Native American texts and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642502886
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	09/15/2020
Pages:	302
Sales rank:	359,438
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Read an Excerpt

December 27

Now that the sun has set,
I sit and rest, and think of you.
Give my weary body peace.
Let my legs and arms stop aching.
Let my nose stop sneezing,
Let my head stop thinking.
Let me sleep in your arms.

—Dinka, date unknown

December 28

From that which we fear, make us fearless.
O bounteous One, assist us with your aid.

May the atmosphere we breathe breathe fearlessness into us:
fearlessness on earth and fearlessness in heaven!
May fearlessness surround us above and below!

May we be without fear by night and by day!
Let all the world be my friend!

—Atharva Veda XIX

Table of Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Letter of the Heart

Winter

Spring

Summer

Fall

Acknowledgments

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“ Prayers for Healing can help us deepen the spiritual dimension in our lives. It can help us connect with the Absolute, with the Earth that sustains us, and with each other. What could be more important?”

—Larry Dossey, MD, author of Prayer Is Good Medicine and Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and The Practice of Medicine