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About This Candle As I write this, there are many bleak situations for which I pray for miracles. Our country at war. The health struggles of a teenage girl I adore. Facing the painful anniversary of a family member's death. The implosion of my spirit, which I've allowed to be eaten alive by saying no too little and yes too much. And yet, every day, miracles both big and little present themselves as if to say, "Look at me! Don't despair! Believe in me!" As author Laurence J. Peter wrote, "Don't believe in miracles--depend on them." —Carla Blazek, creator, zena moon |
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Last updated 3/17/2005
1. Prayers: A Communion With Our Creator
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From Amazon.com: In The Four Agreements Don Miguel Ruiz touched the lives of millions of people with his four guided principles for life transformation. In Prayers he introduces his favorite prayers and meditations. Don Miguel begins each of his lectures and classes with a prayer or guided meditation to inspire and invoke a receptive frame of mind and to reinforce the concepts being introduced. Similarly, readers can use this book as a source of inspiration in times of need or as daily encouragement. The prayers address such topics as wisdom, healing, courage, love, self-love, forgiveness, integrity, freedom, happiness, and truth.
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From Amazon.com: Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system. The truth is: love heals. Miracles happen to exceptional patients every day--patients who have the courage to love, those who have the courage to work with their doctors to participate in and influence their own recovery. "Run, don't walk, to the nearest bookstore and get this amazing book that explains how you can 'think' yourself sick or well...Every family should have a copy. It can be a lifesaver." --Ann Landers
3. Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer
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From the Author: In Grace's Window, Suzanne Guthrie (an Episcopal priest who ministers in the Hudson Valley region) teaches the reader about the seasons of prayer by showing us her own. In these 40 meditations from Advent through Pentecost, Guthrie weaves together her mystical awareness of the presence of god and the experiences of childhood and childbirth, ministry and housekeeping, summer firestorms and family life, suffering and dying. For Guthrie, ordinary life is a window of grace into the holy, where nothing is wasted because everything can teach us the art of prayer -- circling hawks and church liturgies, winter rains and supper tables, music lessons and folding laundry. In the language of contemporary mysticism, we learn to pray because eventually we learn to see. Grace's Window is inspirational reading for anyone seeking to find the mystical in the commonplace, the divine in the ordinary, the spirit in the flesh, the touch of god within us all.
Original Release Date: 1999
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From Amazon.com: It is with primitive urgency and lustrous clarity rising like flickering embers from a fire that Jonathan Elias's ambitious Prayer Cycle is given voice. Woven together like knotty wool, silk, and fine strands of silvery water, the disparate yet complementary voices of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Alanis Morissette, Yungchen Lhamo, Ofra Haza, the American Boychoir, Salif Keita, and others intertwine in multiple languages with the superb English Chamber Orchestra and Chorus. Prayers of supplication, gratitude, and longing build in layers, one on top of and 'twixt and 'tween the other, as movements titled "Mercy," "Grace," "Innocence," "Compassion," and the like. Remarkably, Elias's Prayer Cycle eloquently captures the ecstasy, pain, grief, and sublime beauty of humanity--as he simply and poignantly writes in his liner notes, "The world we live in is both joyous and cruel."
Original Release Date: 1994
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From Amazon.com: Tibetan Prayer Chants starts with the blowing of a conch shell to start the morning for these nuns. Then begins a fantastically uplifting, yet calming recording of these women who live a simple monastic life and say these daily, communal prayers. They go through many different cadences and rhythms, weaving a spell based on compassion for all beings. There is no background instrumentation, and none is needed. Great for driving, thinking, meditating, or doing the dishes. This is one of my desert island albums.
Original Release Date: 2000
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From Amazon.com: It was inevitable that synthesist Steve Roach would
apply his soundscape designs to the deep, ancient, and often harrowing chants
of Tibetan Buddhist monks. He's gone into the primal core with Aboriginal
sounds and cultures on albums such as
Dreamtime Return, and his
Magnificent Void CD stepped into the
abyss. On
Prayers to the Protector, he works with
the chants of Thupten Pema Lama of the Dip Tse Chok Ling Monastery. In Roach's
studio, Thupten Pema Lama sang these devotional prayers and entreaties
unaccompanied. Then Roach slipped them into his own soundworld, surrounding
the monk with evanescent waves of synthesized ambiences. Being Steve Roach,
this isn't the usual pretty New Age synth-glissandos, but darkly hued textures
with metallic edges. On "Djewa takgya lingchee lhunbur dje" (a prayer for the
world, according to the liner notes), he evokes the metal gongs and bowls of
Tibetan chants as well as a freight train putting on the brakes in space.
Prayers
to the Protector doesn't dress up
Buddhist chants, it just sends them into deeper space.
1.
13 Conversations About One Thing
(2001) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
A smartly written and wonderfully acted
movie about happiness and fate.
13 Conversations About One Thing
takes four characters (a lawyer who hits a housecleaner with his car, then
flees the scene; the housecleaner herself; a science professor who leaves his
wife; and an insurance claims adjuster who's deeply envious of a coworker who
seems irrepressibly happy) and blends their stories into a delicate but potent
mix. The characters cross paths at various points, but more often the events
reverberate off each other in funny, surprising, or sorrowful ways. For all
its cleverness,
13 Conversations
never loses sight of the characters' humanity. The remarkable performances
(from Matthew McConaughey, Clea DuVall, Amy Irving, John Turturro, and
especially Alan Arkin) are riveting. On top of that, this movie, for all its
quiet and talkative nature, is visually stunning, each shot a carefully
composed portrait of a state of mind.
2.
The Last Temptation of Christ
(1988) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
In this reverential, and spiritually
moving retelling of the Jesus story, director Martin Scorsese has made his
finest film. The story dares to explore the human side of Jesus instead of
depicting him as the religious cypher that is typical of the other movies that
have been made about the life of this flesh and blood man. The film explores
the implicit conflict between Jesus' human side, and his manifest destiny as
the son of God. Assertions by Amazon's reviewer that this film is no more
accurate, or relevant than
The Life of Brian are ridiculous! Almost
nothing is known about the historical life of Jesus, and that life IS open to
meditation, and speculation. By the way, the character of Jesus, doesn't have
"sex with Barbara Hershey" as Mike Bethany implies (this is a "dream"
sequence, part of both the Temptation, and Jesus' vision of what it would mean
to have a human life!). The dialogue of the movie is decidedly modern and is
meant to approximate common speech: the fact that it is not a literal
translation gives it the beauty of the ordinary, the sense of way the real
people talk in real life; which in turn gives the ideas and action of the film
a modern urgency and connection. Willem Dafoe, despite his blond hair and blue
eyes (Jesus is usually Europeanized to fit the expectation of modern
Christians who wish to see him in the image of themselves), is tremendous in
this challenging role, that calls for him to be both believably "real" and
spiritually compelling. It is sad to think that Dafoe has worked so little of
late; he is one of the best actors of his generation. In fact, the acting, all
around, with Barbara Hershey, and Harvey Keitel in particular, is laudable. I
love the period detail of this film: Morocco, I think, stood in believably for
the Middle East, and in the cameras continual sweep of the dry hills, and
plateau's, one gets a feel for the harsh, yet beautiful landscape that Jesus
walked. Peter Gabriel composed, and assembled a particularly evocative
score, that combines synthesizer and
traditional rhythms. Those "Christian" groups that picketed this film, either
didn't see it, or are simply closed minded, for this is truly one of the most
deeply and affirmingly religious films ever produced!
3.
Baraka (Special Collector's
Edition)
(1993) ~ DVD
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From Amazon.com:
The word Baraka means
"blessing" in several languages; watching this film, the viewer is blessed
with a dazzling barrage of images that transcend language. Filmed in 24
countries and set to an ever-changing global
soundtrack, the movie draws some surprising
connections between various peoples and the spaces they inhabit, whether that
space is a lonely mountaintop or a crowded cigarette factory. Some of these
attempts at connection are more successful than others: for instance, an early
sequence segues between the daily devotions of Tibetan monks, Orthodox Jews,
and whirling dervishes, finding more similarity among these rituals than one
might expect. And there are other amazing moments, as when sped-up footage of
a busy Hong Kong intersection reveals a beautiful symmetry to urban life that
could only be appreciated from the perspective of film. The lack of context is
occasionally frustrating--not knowing where a section was filmed, or the
meaning of the ritual taking place--and some of the transitions are puzzling.
However, the
DVD includes a short behind-the-scenes
featurette in which cinematographer Ron Fricke (Koyaanisqatsi)
explains that the effect was intentional: "It's not where you are that's
important, it's what's there." And what's here, in
Baraka,
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