The different prayers from around the world demonstrate that God speaks through and to all people. The beauty in each prayer symbolizes that the path to God has many different branches- all leading from and returning to the same source. Prayer provides both spiritual and psychological benefits. By focusing on the message in a prayer that speaks to us, we are able to focus on something other than ourselves. By turning our attention to contemplation and prayer, we can relieve stress, sadness, anxiety and anger.
Contemplative prayer raises our consciousness while helping to heal our souls.
True prayer must come from love. We need to be able to relax into this love and trust in its natural flow. We need to realize that love is the cause of all creation, and love will flow where it is needed when we ourselves have surrendered to it. That I have risen today To the rising of this life itself. May it be to thine own glory, O God of every gift, And to the glory of my soul likewise.