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In her most personal book to date, beloved teacher and best-selling author Caroline Myss draws on her own practice to help us regain our fluency in the language of prayer and renew our connection to the sacred.
Intimate Conversations with the Divine offers 100 of Myss's personal prayers as a resource and inspiration to start a prayer practice of your own. Each prayer illustrates a different type of grace that feeds the human soul, from awakening, endurance, and healing, to silence, surrender, and trust.
"We are one holy system of life and great cosmic truth, which is that all life-including all of us-breathes together," Myss writes. "I hope this book, these prayers, will bring you comfort and grace, and help you through the difficult times ahead. And I hope they will inspire you to believe that with God, all things are possible."
In The Press
"I've loved so many of Caroline Myss's books, but maybe none so much
as Intimate Conversations with the Divine. Has there ever been
a more urgent need for her unique and profound (and sometimes
wonderfully cranky) take on our spiritual reality, healing, and the
language of holiness? . . . Her words raise my spirit."
- Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author of
Hallelujah Anyway and Help, Thanks, Wow
"Intimate Conversations with the Divine shows
us that prayer isn't some esoteric activity reserved for a holy few;
it's a language we are born knowing. These pages will encourage anyone
who has lost the habit of daily prayer to take it up again, and
inspire anyone who has never prayed to start the conversation now."
- Maria Shriver, best-selling author and award-winning
journalist
"Caroline Myss has written a book that sets the
power of Prayer free from the monastery, allowing it to enter our
hearts and minds as an essential Grace for these challenging modern
times. In re-envisioning how we dialogue with the Divine, Caroline's
profound, clear spiritual direction offers new direct access to
Prayer's healing power and enduring capacity to help us up any
mountain that we've been called to climb. New soulful summits of your
life's potential await you through
Intimate Conversations with the Divine."
- Robert Ohotto, intuitive strategist and best-selling author
of Transforming Fate into Destiny
"These heartfelt
conversations with the divine offer a profound invitation to express
our own spiritual questions and concerns, yearnings, and deepest
dreams. With the warmth and wisdom of a good friend, Caroline Myss has
given us a treasure trove of spiritual insight for these troubled
times."
- Clark Strand and Perdita Finn, co-authors of
The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden
in the Rosary
"What is the prayer you most need to pray in your life? Do
you know how it begins? In Intimate Conversations with the Divine, Caroline Myss teaches you a whole new way to pray. Praying with
God, not to God. Filled with 100 beautiful prayers-holy moments of
divine intimacy-this mystical handbook helps you cultivate a practice
of daily deep prayer that invites a whole new level of guidance,
grace, and inspiration into your life."
- Robert Holden, author of Holy Shift! and
Finding Love Everywhere
"In this book Caroline Myss invites us to listen in as she
prays to the Lord her God. As we listen, we realize she is encouraging
us to speak to the Lord Our God of all the expected and unexpected
things our heart wants us to say. And, as our own voice falls silent,
to then listen to the still small voice of God that is always there
guiding and sustaining us in each passing moment of our lives."
- James Finley, Contemplative Teacher with the Center for
Action and Contemplation
"Once again, Caroline Myss lights
the way, showing us how the epidemics of this time must ultimately be
addressed at the level of the soul. . . . This is prayer with power
and energy-the power to breathe and instill life; the energy of
unconditional love that opens us up so that we once again feel that
which most nourishes and ultimately heals."
- Jeffrey Rediger, M.D., M.Div., Harvard Medical School, author
of Cured: The New Science of Spontaneous Healing
"In A Course in Miracles it's written that 'prayer
is the medium of miracles.' At no time in the world has it been more
obvious that humanity is in need of power that we alone cannot bestow.
Caroline Myss presents the most ancient of powers in a startlingly
relevant way."
- Marianne Williamson, author
"Caroline Myss
beautifully succeeds in awakening the lost language of prayer, a holy
language that our world needs as never before. Her prayers are flashes
of her intimacies with the divine. . . . It is always brave to share
the intimacy of the messages hidden in silence. When this courage is
matched by true gentleness, the effect is powerful healing; her
prayers will heal sick souls. Caroline's evident care for others and
her spirit of service will make this book a true friend and companion
for those in need at every step of their life's journey."
- Laurence Freeman, Benedictine monk and leader of the World
Community for Christian Meditation
"Every thought is a
prayer. Thinking sets in motion spiritual forces to create change.
Intimate Conversations with the Divine provides that essential
thinking for the optimal mystical life."
- C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., president of Shealy-Sorin
Wellness and Holos Energy Medicine Education
"At a time
when we need to reawaken our relationship with the Divine, along comes
Intimate Conversations with the Divine, which spoke deep inside
the heart of my longings, visions, and truths. This book will awaken
anyone who is asleep, and to those who are awakened, it will add more
fuel to your 'awakeness.' The whole world needs to deepen their
conversations with the Divine, and Caroline's new book will take you
to a place to find all of your life's solutions. The best read I have
come across in decades!"
- Sister Dr. Jenna, Brahma Kumaris, radio host,
America Meditating
"Sometimes I feel as if I go
through the day barely able to see, unable to hear, saying things I
don't really mean. A lost human being in a sea of other stressed-out,
disconnected people. What to do? I'll tell you what to do: read this
book! It clears a path through the dark woods of our times. Caroline
Myss says that the true meaning of prayer is a request for help in how
to see. Reading Intimate Conversations with the Divine gave me
new sight, opened my ears, and helped me say beautiful, meaningful,
powerful new prayers."
- Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder of Omega Institute, author of
Broken Open and Cassandra Speaks
"In this
honest and unique spiritual diary, Caroline Myss invites us to a
daring journey into the inner truth of our deepest selves. . . . Myss
shares with us a deeply personal glimpse into her own mystical soul
and-if we listen deeply-into our own. . . . In a time of religious
deconstruction, Myss dares to reconstruct. She calls us to the deeper
meaning and practice of prayer-one that will serve us well in these
challenging times."
- Matthew Fox, author of
Prayer: A Radical Response to Life, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas, and
Naming the Unnameable
"The power of prayer is resurfacing in our collective
consciousness right at the moment we are all experiencing the
shattering effects of the pandemic together. Right at the moment we
are all in the same conversation about our vulnerabilities and
concerns about the future, we are realizing that we need, once again,
to pray. Caroline has shared a pathway of prayers back to the Divine.
Only prayer can lead us now."
- Jim Garrison, Ph.D., President of Ubiquity University
"Open this book and be astonished. It is at once a
revelation and a spirit-quaking reminder of the power and practice of
prayer. It Is also the Passion Play of a mystic, Caroline Myss, as she
daily enters into spirited conversation with the Divine, receiving
insights that are as welcome as finding cool spring water in the
desert. Soul deep and winsomely wise, Caroline brooks no whiny
naysaying but persists in her talks until the laughter of God brings
fresh insights, potent knowings into our human space and time. But be
warned. You cannot commune with this book without being changed and
charged. For you come to discover that you only live in the sacred
cosmos but that it also lives in you. We are One Holy System. And then
the great duet begins!"
- Jean Houston, Ph.D., Chancellor of Meridian University,
author of The Wizard of Us and
The Search for the Beloved
"Caroline is giving all
of us exactly what we need to nourish our courage and embolden our
embattled hope-a book on prayer that is not only a mystical classic
but direct guidance as to how to align, nakedly and passionately, with
the Divine from the most authentic part of ourselves. This book is far
more than a masterpiece-it is a blazing manifesto of Truth and
Empowerment which no sincere lover of God can afford not to read,
learn from, and integrate profoundly."
- Andrew Harvey, author of
The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism and, with Carolyn Baker,
Savage Grace: How to Live Resiliently in the Global Dark Night
"I inhaled this book-a very personal and powerful prayer
journey that is a gift to us all. The importance of holy language is
critical, now more than ever. The perfect read for anyone who needs a
boost of much-needed grace."
-Jenniffer Weigel, Emmy Award-winning journalist, author of
This Isn't the Life I Ordered and
I'm Spiritual, Dammit!
"In this luminous collection
of sacred conversations, Caroline Myss reclaims holy language and
offers it back as blessing, as birthright, as a lighthouse beckoning
us home from the storms of the human condition. Each prayer is
drenched with potency, richly wrought, simultaneously particular and
universal. What a gift to be invited to listen in on the intimate
conversations between a master teacher and her God, and to find here
the possibility of a direct response to our own innermost
yearnings."
- Mirabai Starr, translator of Teresa of Avila and John of the
Cross, author of God of Love and Wild Mercy
"When Caroline Myss asked me to review her book
Intimate Conversations with the Divine, I was unprepared for
what I was in for. On the surface her book is about how prayer is the
sacred language through which we intimately connect with something
beyond and greater than ourselves. While reading her words, however, I
was shocked-and delighted-when I began having the experience that
something alive was speaking to me, as if I was in dialogue with
another part of myself. But even more than that, in reading her book I
began to intuitively feel through my heart that her words weren't
about prayer, but were, in a very magical and unexpected way,
answering a prayer of mine. It was as if a deeper part of myself had
dreamed up Caroline's book to come my way at exactly the right moment
in time in order to remind me how to deepen my communion with my own
soul. I can't recommend Intimate Conversations with the Divine highly
enough. Caroline has offered us a true gift that couldn't be more
needed at this time in our history."
- Paul Levy, author of Dispelling Wetiko and
The Quantum Revelation
"These prayers help us name
our longings and give us permission to show up before God with new
honesty and vulnerability. They encourage us to listen to those
almost-silent whispers of God, who-like a gentle mother-is always
eager to embrace us in our brokenness and bring us closer to Her
heart."
- Fr. Adam Bucko, co-author of Occupy Spirituality and
The New Monasticism and director of The Center for Spiritual
Imagination at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in New York
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