GOD-centric Interior Spiritual Disciplines:

To live in a good and fair God of love

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GOD-centric Interior Spiritual Disciplines

Table of Contents

Preface

Ch. 1 Warm-up: Music & Arts

Music

Art

Ch. 2 Exercise: Praying the Hours

Lauds: Sunrise: God Our Morning Star ~ St. Bede the Venerable

Prime: 6:00 A.M.:The Day Ahead ~ Thomas à Kempis

Terce: 9:00 A.M.: Prayer of Metropolitan Philaret

Sext: Noon: Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila

None: 3:00 P.M.: Play of Creation ~ Dadu Dayal

Vespers: Sunset: The Ship of Life ~ St. Basil of Caesarea

Compline: 9:00 P.M.: Quiet the Trees ~ Chittaranjan Das

Matins: Midnight: Evening Prayer ~ Jewish Liturgy

Ignatian Examen

Ch. 3 Exercise: Contemplative Prayer

Bou Ali and the Old Woman ~ Farid ud-Din Attar

Intoxicated by the Wine of Love ~ Farid ud-Din Attar

The Triumph of the Soul ~ Farid ud-Din Attar

Universal Invocation ~ Annie Besant

Gathering the Mind ~ Sun Buer

Silently and Serenely ~ Hung-chih Cheng-chueh

Early Documents 44 ~ St. Clare of Assisi

The Love Of God ~ Dante

One Thing Alone I Crave ~ Dame Catherine Gascoigne

All Things ~ Hadewijch

Love's Constancy ~ Hadewijch

In Your Midst ~ Hildegard von Bingen

Your Beauty ~ Ahmad Jami

The Sum of Perfection ~ St. John of the Cross

Songs of Kabir #1

Songs of Kabir #55

Songs of Kabir #97

For Inward Peace ~ Soren Kierkegaard

O Infinite Consciousness ~ Lalleshwari

Barn's Burnt Down ~ Masahide

Effortlessly ~ Mechthild of Magdeburg

Flowing Light of the Godhead  ~ Mechthild of Magdeburg

Though He Has No Form ~ Muktabai

Beloved, What Do You Want Of Me ~ Marguerite Porete

Only Breath ~ Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

Now Comes the Final Merging ~ Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

Within This Body ~ Tulsi Sahib

No Tongue Can Tell Your Secret ~ Hakim Sanai

Until You Are Complete ~ Hakim Sanai

He Who Is Stricken By Love ~ Abdullah Shah

Watching the Moon ~ Izumi Shikibu

Clear Valley ~ Muso Soseki

How Is It I Can Love You ~ Symeon the New Theologian

Awesome Mystery ~ Symeon the New Theologian

Glimpse of the Invisible ~ Tulsidas

One Instant Is Eternity ~ Wu Men (Hui-k'ai)

By Willow's Shade ~ Yun-k'an Tzu

Ch. 4 Exercise: Prayers & Poetry

Prayers of Adoration

Whatever Road We Take To You, Joy ~ Abu-Said Abil-Kheir

Meditations ~ Marcus Aurelius

My Joy ~ Rabia al-Basri

Who Can Describe the Source of the Universe ~ Dariya

Songs of Kabir #26

Songs of Kabir #50

Moon of Your Love ~ Muhammad Shirin Maghribi

Unbreakable, O Lord ~ Mirabai

O Lord, Infinite In Thy Glory ~ Nammalvar

Now Let Every Tongue Adore You ~ Philipp Nicolai

The Path of Amazement ~ Seyyid Seyfullah Nizamoglu

Grapes of My Body ~ Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi

My Soul Is Your Temple, O Lord ~ Shankara

Ode of Solomon

The Human Cry ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Prayer to Being ~ Thayumanavar

Miracles ~ Walt Whitman

The Prelude ~ William Wordsworth

Where I Wander ~ You ~ Levi Yitzchak of Berditchov

Prayers of Petition

Prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas

Knowing, Loving and Serving You ~ St. Augustine

Prayer of St. Augustine

O My Lord, If I Worship You ~ Rabia Al-Basri

Give Me Strength ~ Ludwig van Beethoven

Breton Fisherman's Prayer

Universal Prayer ~ Pope Clement XI

Prayer of W.E.B DuBois

Peace Prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi

Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord ~ Gerald Manley Hopkins

Prayer for Generosity ~ St. Ignatius of Loyola

Prayer for the Mind of God ~ Thomas à Kempis

Shine Through Me ~ St. John Nepomucene Neumann

Prayer for Truth ~ John Henry Cardinal Newman

The Higher Good ~ Theodore Parker

Prayer of William Penn

The Universal Prayer ~ Alexander Pope

Sarum Prayer

Song 36 from the Gitanjali ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Fruit-Gathering ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Sadhana ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Prayers of Intercession

Be All to All ~ Lancelot Andrewes

Prayer of Compassion ~ St. Anselm

Prayer for Mankind ~ 'Abdu'l-Bahá

Peace ~ Dionysius of Alexandria

Peace Prayer from the Kathopanisada

Prayer for Peace ~ Pir-o-Murshid Hazrat Inayat Khan

Prayer for Peace ~ Pope Pius XII

Prayer of Pope Paul VI

Hear My Voice, Lord ~ Pope John Paul II

Prayers of Thanksgiving

Give Me ~ Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

The Wisdom of the Rabbis ~ Pirkei Avot

Enjoyment of Creation ~ Book of Common Prayer

The Graour ~ Lord Byron

On Cheerfulness ~ William Ellery Channing

Canticle of Creation ~ St. Francis of Assisi

Pied Beauty ~ Gerald Manley Hopkins

Songs of Kabir #32

Prayer for Our Creator God ~ Johannes Kepler

God's World ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thank You ~ Theodore Parker

For the Beauty of the Earth ~ Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

For Our World, Our Earth ~ Walter Rauschenbusch

Lord, the Air Smells Good Today ~ M. Jelaluddin Rumi

Companion ~ Sarmad

'Tis Not In Religion I Believe ~ Sachal Sarmast

Prayer of Seneca

Ecstasy ~ Solomon ibn Gabirol

Thank You ~ Walt Whitman

Ch. 5 Exercise: Lectio Divina

Bible: New American Bible

Qu'ran: Sahih International

Muktika Upanishads

Lotus Sutra

Ch. 6 Cool Down: Reading for Study