Prayers of Ecstasy

Prayers of Ecstasy
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Publisher: Kalimat Press
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781890688134

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'Abdu'l-Bahá tells us that: "There is nothing sweeter in the world of existence than prayer." This is a prayer book for the sheer ecstasy of communion with God and the pure pleasure of intoxication with the Word. It includes sections on glad-tidings, love, intoxication, rapture, sorrow and joy, and seeking. Also included are familiar meditations and Tablets, like the Long Healing Prayer, the Tablet of Ahmad, and the Fire Tablet, and the maybe less familiar, like the Tablet of the True Seeker, the Perspicuous Verses, and the Blessings from the last passage of the Lawh-i-Aqdas.Collected in this little book are powerful and rapturous prayers and passages from the Bahá'í sacred writings of Baha'u'llah, the Bab, and Abdu'l-Baha to uplift anyone in private prayer or devotional gatherings.

The Way of Ecstasy

The Way of Ecstasy
Author: Peter Tyler
Publisher: Morehouse Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780819217769

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The Way of Ecstasy is a clear and accessible introduction to Teresa of Avila, as well as a beginner's guide to prayer. Using Teresa's book The Interior Castle as a guide, Peter Tyler escorts readers through the basics of a well-grounded prayer life. Teresa's first mansion (in The Interior Castle) for instance, shows us how to enter prayer. Her second mansion helps us to learn about balancing the needs of a life of prayer, and this pattern continues for all of Teresa's seven mansions. The Way of Ecstasy is a practical resource for groups and individuals who want to learn the basics of the spiritual life. Teresa's image of the castle with its seven mansions and Christ himself waiting at the center form a perfect analogy of the journey of the human soul toward God, the states of spiritual growth through which we will reach our goal, and the difficulties we will encounter along the way. Study questions at the end of each chapter make this an excellent resource for reading groups.

Ecstasy and Intimacy

Ecstasy and Intimacy
Author: Edith M. Humphrey
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802831477

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Foreword by Eugene H. Peterson Countering the generic "spirituality" so popular today, Edith Humphrey presents an authentic Christian spirituality that draws on Scripture and the profound riches of the Christian tradition -- Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant. Humphrey shows how Christian spirituality is rooted in the Trinity, in the ecstasy ("going out" of oneself) and intimacy (profound closeness with another) marking the relations between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The book embodies a banquet of excerpts from the greatest spiritual writers in history -- such luminaries as St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, Julian of Norwich, St. Teresa of vila, the Wesley brothers, Thomas Merton, and Alexander Schmemann. Humphrey's elegant prose, laced with stories and images from her own life, beautifully uncovers the ways in which God's trinitarian life informs all human communion. Each chapter ends with questions for further reflection and discussion.

Mariette in Ecstasy

Mariette in Ecstasy
Author: Ron Hansen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2009-10-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0061978280

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The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.

Spiritual Strength for Men

Spiritual Strength for Men
Author: Ali Muhammad Shirazi Bab
Publisher: Kalimat Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2002
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781890688288

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The Ecstacy of Loving God

The Ecstacy of Loving God
Author: John Crowder
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0768496993

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Ecstasy, or extasis, is the Greek term for trance, and is linked with a pleasurable, God-given state of out-of-body experience recorded throughout the New Testament and the church age. Starting with the apostles ecstatic experiences on Pentecost, the Book of Acts further records trances in the lives of Peter and Paul. From the early church to the Christian mystics of the Middle Ages and the famous revivalists of centuries present, God s movements on the earth have always been marked by these supernatural experiences. In this book, John Crowder takes us on a journey from Old Testament ecstatic prophets such as Samuel and Elijah, to the future ecstatics who will usher in a massive wave of harvest Glory to the streets in these last days. God has always wanted a people who live in the Heavens, even as they walk on the Earth. And the world is hungry for the demonstration of a gospel of supernatural power that flows from a life of divine pleasure. More than a state of mind, you will see how the nature of God s ecstasy is found in the joy, bliss and inner raptures of His presence. In this book, you will be encouraged to drink from the river of His pleasure! (Ps. 36:8)

The Philosophy of Ecstasy

The Philosophy of Ecstasy
Author: Leonard Lewisohn
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2014
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 193659742X

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Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of “Whirling Dervishes,” is the best-selling poet in America today. The wide-ranging appeal of his work is such that UNESCO declared 2007 to be “International Rumi Year.” However, his writings represent much more than love poetry. Rumi was one of the preeminent thinkers of Sufism, the esoteric form of Islam. In this groundbreaking collection of 13 essays on Rumi, many of the world’s leading authorities in the field of Islamic Studies and Persian Literature discuss the major religious themes in his poetry and teachings. In addition to discussing the ideas of love, ecstasy, and music in Rumi’s Sufi poetry, the essays offer new historical and theological perspectives on his work. The immortality of the soul, freewill, the nature of punishment and reward, and the relationship of Islam to Christianity are all covered, in order to bring Rumi’s poetry properly into the context of the Sufi tradition to which he belonged.

Maps to Ecstasy

Maps to Ecstasy
Author: Gabrielle Roth
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1577313135

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In this revised edition of Maps to Ecstasy, Gabrielle Roth expands on the themes that have guided her — ways of transforming daily life into sacred art. Her work in teaching movement has been described as a marriage of art and healing. Each chapter initiates readers into one of the five sacred powers necessary for survival and reveals the five life cycles that lead to enlightenment. The creative process brings readers in touch with these five sacred powers by freeing the body to experience the power of being, expressing the heart to experience the power of loving, emptying the mind to experience the power of seeing, and embodying the spirit to experience the power of healing.

Sweat Your Prayers

Sweat Your Prayers
Author: Gabrielle Roth
Publisher: Tarcher
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Dance
ISBN: 9780874778786

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Complete with personal stories and interactive exercises, "Sweat Your Prayers" reveals an ancient and contemporary method for unleashing a natural sense of movement, resulting in both personal power and presence of the soul.

WomanPrayers

WomanPrayers
Author: Mary Ford-Grabowsky
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 006175868X

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“This...would make a marvelous gift from one woman to another, or--perhaps more importantly--for a woman to give herself.” — Publishers Weekly