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Welcome to Prayers and Reflections. We've provided a rich array of writings and prayers that express the longing of the human soul for the divine.

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Metta Sutta
One of the central practices of Mahayana Buddhism is metta, or lovingkindness. This is an excerpt from a text called the Metta Sutta.


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Batter My Heart by John Donne
John Donne’s classic exclamation of devotion and longing from the seventeenth century.


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A Call to Shiva
The Hindu god Shiva may be the oldest continuously worshipped deity in the world. This doesn’t necessarily keep his devotees from addressing him in intimate or even wheedling terms, as this verse from southern India suggests.


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Ten Psalms for Protection
A collection of psalms traditionally read in this sequence as a prayer for protection.


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God Is Most Great
A portion of the prayer Muslims recite five times each day.


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Hymn to Aphrodite
Sappho, a Greek poetess of the seventh century B.C., was so admired in ancient times that she was called the Tenth Muse. This is a hymn to Aphrodite, one of her very few poems that survive intact.


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The Great Invocation
This text comes from an Englishwoman named Alice A. Bailey, who said she channeled it from a Tibetan master known as "D.K." It is one of the most powerful and beautiful prayers of the New Age.


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