Gandhi called prayer "the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening." But what is a prayer? Do you need to believe in God in order to pray? Why are the words important? What is the difference between prayer and meditation? Should you ask for things when you pray? Do prayers change the world around us? Rufus Goodwin--writer, linguist, and former United Press correspondent to the Vatican--addresses these and other questions about prayer in this thoughtful book. He examines the various traditions of prayer through the ages. He discusses practices, ranging from the ancient Indian yoga of sound to the Christian monastic rules of prayer, giving examples of the various religious litanies that ritualize and celebrate the sense of a higher life. Goodwin's intention is not to compare different traditions, but to get at the essential technique and the attitude of prayer--its cognitive workings. Prayer is seen as key to an active inner life and an experience of the higher self. He shows us how prayer can bring about a cognitive restructuring that provides greater access to renewal, imagination, inspiration, and intuition, and provides an anchor for meaning in daily life.

Give Us This Day: The Story of Prayer

Religion & Spirituality

Goodwin, Rufus

New Age & Spirituality

Lindisfarne Pr

Goodwin’s latest offering comes as a haunting collection of poems which narrate Sage’s illustrations - surreal icons of the American 19th century juxtaposed with images of the 21st century in the magical realist style.  Souvenirs of a Century serves as a time capsule of a century and a millennium, thus making it a timely and appropriate addition to American lore.

Souvenirs of a Century: Magical Realism by an American Original and Son

Literature & Fiction

Goodwin, Sage

Poetry

Educare Pr

Valentine for a Waitress

Romance

Paranormal

Poems from 42nd Street

Poet's Novel

A compassionate razor incision into themes of boundaries, love and fear. In Poet's Novel author Goodwin explores the ubiquitous relationships that permeate post-modern life in America. His coarse and humorous canvas illuminates the core of personal psyches - informing with colorful characters troublesome issues that pervade our institutions and the intrinsic composition of or society. Admission to asylum marks the beginning of a new life for poet Amstell. Adrift in contemporary society and struggling to distinguish between madness and inspiration, his relationship with an hospital nurse prepares him for the most difficult poem he's ever written - life.

A man's letter in a newspaper proposing an Open Jerusalem ignites a politicalbattlefield in his country.

Sinai Option

Contemporary

Rufus Goodwin lives and writes in Boston. He is a street poet and novelist, who has explored in his writings the difficult relationships that persist in the Middle East states of Israel, Palestine and the Holy Land. In a statement of enlightened reconciliation he established 'The Committee for Open Jerusalem' to engineer a responsible solution. Blue Guitar investigates the theme of religious encounters in a landscape torn with strife and confusion. He traces his delicate tapestry enhancing rich characters in a world where reality and fundamentalism clash in brutal madness. Goodwin laces this harsh urban tapestry with elements of poetry, humor and grace." Joe Martin, Real Change

Blue Guitar

A documentarry novel of the 1960s when Martin Luther King went Up The Mountain. There was a surreal feel to the encounter between black and white on the sidelines of history, and the nightmarish outcome to a decade that somehow had gone very wrong. The 1960s climaxed in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. before he could march on Washington in the Poor People's Campaign of 1968. These years were not just about Woodstock, drugs, and sexual liberation--they were also about work, Civil Rights, the Ecumenical Council, and the Great Society. Kennedy, King, and Malcolm X went down to their deaths--and a lot of good people on the streets who were not taking drugs, but who were working for Civil Rights, in the anti-war movement, or were just trying to walk their ideals--went down too.

To Have A Dream

Literary

Educare Press

Minor voice among megalith, lost violin, and other poems

Urban Press

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