Overview
It is often from the depths of desperation, from a sense of abject isolation, that we beg to know how to pray. How can we truly contact God or that Divine Being, that Power behind this world that we inhabit, but do not understand?
In The Altitude of Prayer, Joel Goldsmith teaches us the answer to this question. He explains what prayer is, how to practice it, and how the true understanding of prayer will shift our experience. All prayer, he asserts, is a preparation to receive and to recognize the Grace of God, the power and the fulfillment of the Divine that is already within us.
We have been taught to talk to God, to tell Him our needs and to ask for physical healings, money, companionship --- even transportation. However, these are concepts, and for prayer to be effective our treasured concepts must be dismissed. Mr. Goldsmith teaches that prayer is not a mere recital of words and rote phrases, but an attitude and altitude of consciousness: a commending of our souls, our destinies, our very selves, into the realm of Spirit.
The Altitude of Prayer engages the reader in a journey of the true livingness of prayer. It is a journey that is as practical as it is profound. "When we are a vessel already full, full of longings, desires, hopes and ambitions, we are not empty enough to receive God's grace. Only when we are a state of emptiness, which we have created through pondering the nature of God and the nature of prayer, we become instruments, and then into our consciousness God pours wisdom and love."
Synopsis
It is often from the depths of desperation, from a sense of abject isolation, that we beg to know how to pray. How can we truly contact God or that Divine Being, that Power behind this world that we inhabit, but do not understand?
In The Altitude of Prayer, Joel Goldsmith teaches us the answer to this question. He explains what prayer is, how to practice it, and how the true understanding of prayer will shift our experience. All prayer, he asserts, is a preparation to receive and to recognize the Grace of God, the power and the fulfillment of the Divine that is already within us.
We have been taught to talk to God, to tell Him our needs and to ask for physical healings, money, companionship --- even transportation. However, these are concepts, and for prayer to be effective our treasured concepts must be dismissed. Mr. Goldsmith teaches that prayer is not a mere recital of words and rote phrases, but an attitude and altitude of consciousness: a commending of our souls, our destinies, our very selves, into the realm of Spirit.
The Altitude of Prayer engages the reader in a journey of the true livingness of prayer. It is a journey that is as practical as it is profound. "When we are a vessel already full, full of longings, desires, hopes and ambitions, we are not empty enough to receive God's grace. Only when we are a state of emptiness, which we have created through pondering the nature of God and the nature of prayer, we become instruments, and then into our consciousness God pours wisdom and love."