By Robert Frager — 2002
My Sufi master taught that the goal of Sufism is to develop hearts that can pray.
Read on www.personaltransformation.com
CLEAR ALL
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know whom you’re praying to, says Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel. The very act of asking for help allows the heart to open and invite the world in.
My dear Dr. Einstein, We have brought up the question: ‘Do scientists pray?’ in our Sunday school class.
Let’s start with the definition of prayer, the most classical definition that you learn in Sunday School: “the lifting up of heart and mind to God.”
I’ve always struggled with prayer—the asking kind. It reminds me of Janis Joplin’s satiric song about asking the Lord for a Mercedes-Benz, and it never felt right to me.