CENTERING PRAYER OPENS WAY TO GOD.(RELIGION)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) | November 29, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: JOHN BACKMAN

A roomful of people sits in silence. No one utters a word. The only sounds are steady breathing and the occasional bird outside. This continues for half an hour, sometimes longer.

Few would call this prayer. Fewer still would call it adventure. Yet it is emphatically both.

For millennia, people seeking a deeper communion with God have practiced this kind of prayer, often known as centering prayer. At its essence, it is a simple way by which we can open ourselves to the divine presence among us, whom we may not recognize in the ...

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