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Top left, clockwise: A Hindu Holy man offers prayer at a temple in India. (Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty Images); Bikers pray during mass given by Christian Riders Ministry in Florida. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images); A Palestinian greenhouse worker bows in prayer during a break. (David Furst/AFP/Getty Images); and feminist Muslim author Asra Nomani prays with other women during a rare mixed gender, woman-led prayer service in New York City. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

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Approaching Prayer

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Recommended Reading
Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy Riverhead, 1997 ISBN: 1573225851		The Book of Job Stephen Mitchell (translator) HarperCollins, 1992 ISBN: 0060969598

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version Lao Tzu / Stephen Mitchell (translator) HarperCollins, 2000 ISBN: 0060955430		Memories of God: Theological Reflections on a Life Roberta C. Bondi Abingdon Press, 1995 ISBN: 0687038928

To Pray and to Love: Conversations on Prayer with the Early Church Roberta C. Bondi Augsburg Fortress, 1991 ISBN: 0800625110		A Book of Psalms: Selected and Adapted from the Hebrew Stephen Mitchell (translator) HarperCollins, 1994 ISBN: 0060924705

Music Played
Chant The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos "Veni sancte spiritus" Angel 55138		Inner Voices R. Carlos Nakai "Woodsong C" Canyon Records

Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances Anja Lechner "Bayaty" / "Prayer" Sony Classical		The Cello Suites: Inspired by Bach Yo-Yo Ma "Sarabande from Suite No. 2 in D Minor" Sony Classical

Klezmer Soul Kol Simcha "Why" Hearts of Space		Chants of India Ravi Shankar "Vandanaa Trayee" / "Hari Om" / "Asato Maa" / "Managalam" / "Sahanaa Vavatu" / "Gaayatri" Angel/EMI 55948

Open Veins: Music of Robert Moran Piano Circus Band "I can go? I can go to my father? And I'll keep this ring on." / "Movement 3" from the opera The Desert of Roses: Arias, Interludes, and Inventions Innova		Summer Song Frifot "I Denna Lijuva Sommartid (In This Lovely Summertime)" Northside

Awakening Joseph Curiale "The Multiples of One" Black Box BBM 1050		LAGQ's Guitar Heroes Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) "Letter from Home" Telarc