How Do You Pray?: Inspiring Responses from Religious Leaders, Spiritual Guides, Healers, Activists and Other Lovers of Humanity

How Do You Pray? Is a highly recommended text that can expand your spiritual conception of how to pray and broaden one's understanding of the many ways to commune with the Creator. I appreciate the author for complying this work of spiritual art and sharing this text with the world.

Thoughtful, short pieces on prayer from many different perspectives. Good resource for a daily meditation.

I am IN LOVE WITH this book. It has become part of my morning meditation ritual to read one or many of the entries and have it inform my heart in how my own practice unfolds that day. I have earmarked so many pages as the book is filled with layers and layers of inspiration. I have shared the book with most of my spiritual friends and we are all using it.I think the inquiry into how you pray is so beautiful. My friend Kimberly and I were just asking each other that question a couple of weeks ago as we have been exploring prayer as a more active practice. Literally the next day she received an email highlighting the publication of Celeste's book. We took it as a big synchronicity and each got the book. I'm very much in the inquiry and am looking forward to when I am moved to write a prayer entry onto Celeste's How Do You Pray website. Just the process of consideration feels very fruitful and expansive.

My friend Adele sent me an email and said, "you'd like this book": How Do You Pray?. When I investigated and saw that Mirabai Starr wrote the forward, I knew she was right. I'm a big fan of Mirabai's beautiful writing, teachings, and her gentle spirit. I'm so glad I bought this book and I read excerpts each night before going to sleep.I love the diversity of beliefs, practices, and ideas on how to connect. I especially love reading excerpts from other authors I've come to know and love. What a great idea!Thank you Celeste Yacoboni for creating such a beautiful and inspiring book!

This really is a nice collection of writings on prayer by thoughtful people, representing a range of traditions. What kept it to only three stars rather than four was the repetitiveness which set in after a while. I ended up skimming a lot toward the end of the book.Personally, I most appreciated the contributions by Jewish writers. They were the ones which provided me with the most new insights and ideas.

What a beautiful book! It can be read and used in so many ways -- either cover-to-cover in one grand sweep, sequentially one entry at a time, picking through the table of contents for an author or a title that piques your interest, or opening it at random for whatever gem it drops in your lap. You could use it for daily inspiration, for wisdom and encouragement when you need it most, or a sort of course in prayer. It expands your definition of prayer, and encourages a realization that, while special times or circumstances can certainly be conducive to a rich prayer life, still, a truly engaged life can also become a prayer. I think I'll be using this book for a long time. Thank you, Celeste -- this is a most valuable work you've done here.

This is an ambitious undertaking. I liked the forward by Mirabai Starr. I cannot give it five stars because main line Christians are under represented. If there is a second edition I would hope more prominent Christians would be included e.g. Tilden Edwards, James Finley, Pope Francis, Joyce Rupp, Joan Chittister, Desmond Tutu, Martin Mary, Barbara Brown Taylor, Cynthia Bourgeault, Peter Gomes ,John Shelby Spong, etc.

Full of timeless wisdom! I use it like an oracle and it seems any page I open to offers me pertinent information for the current moment. Great collection of heartfelt and soulful responses.

This is a lovely book. It features many different people with all sorts of religious outlooks (including agnostic and aetheist) talking about prayer. Exactly what I was looking for. It's a warm and accessible book.

Very good

I found the contents very good BUT (1) I would have found it more helpful to have had a biography of the author with their prayer rather than at the end and (2) The biographies got completely jammed when extra advertising was inserted and so could never get to the second half of them.