Monday 16 July 2007

prayer

“I don’t know what prayer is, but I do know how to pay attention.”

(Mary Oliver, poet)


i found this on maggie dawn's blog, which is always worth reading, link below.

http://maggidawn.typepad.com/maggidawn/2007/07/poems-prayers.html

1 comment:

Jonathan Evens said...

The Quaker artist, Ben Norris, has said that prayer is like "paying close attention, non-judgmentally, to "what is!" He has been influenced in this view by Brother Lawrence, a 17th century lay Carmelite, and his book 'The Practice of the Presence of God.' I found information about Ben Norris see: http://www.fgcquaker.org/connect/autumn00/4.html .