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I am writing this blog as a gift for a certain group of friends, but also for anyone else who happens to come across it and enjoy the fruits. I have found prayer to be an incredible clarifying and stabilize practice, and these are all the best I have come across. I pray that they serve to help open you, my friend, to express your wonderful true self as well.

If you have any personal favorites that you want to share - from any belief system, time period, or imaginary nation - then please send them to me. Feel free to write your own if you feel inspired. I get frustrated sometimes when the prayers I have aren´t well suited for a certain moment or difficulty in my life - so I write my own!

My Lord, please grant me constancy.
That I might suffer nobly the pains of my existence,
That I might bleed or cry or toss in anguish
With the same loving heart that reaches for you come morning.
That my pains, on the altar of my experience,
Be Yours, as this Heartbeat is Yours,
And this Breath, Yours,
And this loving, compassionate Impulse, Yours.

Other times when I learn a new prayer I can use it as a litany in difficult moments, to help guide me through. One of my favorites is the first part of Saint Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Where there is doubt, faith
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
And where there is sadness, joy.

Another favorite comes from the book by Frank Herbert, DUNE

Fear is the mindkiller. Fear is the little death that brings total annihilation. I will face my fear. I will allow it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
- Bene Gesserit Litany

That's all for now.

Enjoy!