Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer Quotes

“The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessings, Wisdom, and Hurt: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom and Hurt

“Unlike the traditional prayers that we may have used in the past, however, this technique of prayer has no words. It is based in the silent language of human emotion. It invites us to feel gratitude and appreciation, as if our prayers have already been answered. Through this quality of feeling, the ancients believed that we’re given direct access to the power of creation: the Spirit of God.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

“In addition to connecting all things, ancient traditions suggest that the Field provides us with a reflection, an outer mirror of our inner experiences. As a pulsating, shimmering, living substance, the Field serves as a feedback mechanism of sorts. Through it, creation reflects our innermost feelings and thoughts in the form of our relationships, careers, and health. In the mirror, we can see our true beliefs—not just what we like to think we believe! To help visualize how this mirror works, I’m sometimes reminded of the “living” water in the science-fiction movie The Abyss. Set in the dark and uncharted depths of the ocean floor, a mysterious life-form makes itself known to the marooned crew of a deep-sea exploration vessel. (I’ll be brief and general here because I don’t want to spoil the story if you haven’t already seen it.) The nonphysical energy of the alien-like presence must express itself through something physical, and so uses the most abundant medium available at the bottom of the ocean: seawater. As an intelligent and seemingly endless tube of seawater, it finds its way into the disabled vessel, and then snakes its way through the corridors and doorways until it finds the crew huddled together in one room to conserve power. This is where the mirror comes in. As the watery life-form rises up from the floor and one end of the tube looks directly into the faces of the crew at eye level, a remarkable thing begins to happen. Every time one of the crew looks at the end of the tube, it mirrors that person’s face exactly as it appears in the moment. As the human face smiles, the water-tube smiles. When the human face laughs, that laugh is mirrored in the water. The tube has no judgment of what it’s being shown, and it doesn’t try to enhance or change what’s there in any way. It just reflects to the person in front of it what that person is in the moment.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

“When we see your prayers,” I began, “what are you doing? When we see you tone and chant for 14 and 16 hours a day, when we see the bells, the bowls, the gongs, the chimes, the mudras, and the mantras on the outside, what is happening to you on the inside?” As the translator shared the abbot’s reply, a powerful sensation rippled through my body, and I knew that this was the reason we’d come to this place. “You have never seen our prayers,” he answered, “because a prayer cannot be seen.” Adjusting the heavy wool robes beneath his feet, the abbot continued. “What you have seen is what we do to create the feeling in our bodies. Feeling is the prayer!”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

“In the 20th century, modern science may have rediscovered the Spirit of God as a field of energy that’s different from any other form of energy. It appears to be everywhere, always, and to have existed since the beginning of time. The man widely regarded as the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, stated that the existence of the Field suggests that a great intelligence is responsible for our physical world. “We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.” He concluded, simply saying, “This mind is the matrix of all matter.”1 Referring to it by other terms such as the Unity Field, contemporary studies have shown that Planck’s matrix does, in fact, have intelligence. Just as the ancients suggested, the Field responds to human emotion! Regardless of what we call it or how science and religion define it, it’s clear that there’s something out there—a force, a field, a presence—that is the “great magnet” constantly pulling us toward one another and connecting us to a higher power. Knowing that this force exists, it makes tremendous sense that we’d be able to communicate with it in a way that is meaningful and useful in our lives. Ultimately, we may discover that the same power that heals our deepest hurts and creates peace between nations holds the key to our survival as a species.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

“Both science and ancient tradition suggest the very same thing: We must embody in our lives the very conditions that we wish to experience in our world. We find the instructions for a lost mode of prayer that helps us do just that, hidden within some of the most isolated and remote locations remaining on Earth today. In the spring of 1998, I had the honor of facilitating a 22-day pilgrimage into the monasteries of central Tibet, searching for evidence of an ancient and forgotten form of prayer—the language that speaks to the field that unites all things. The monks and the nuns who live there shared the instructions for a way to pray that was largely lost to the West in the fourth-century biblical edits of the early Christian Church.3 Preserved for centuries in the texts and traditions of those living upon the roof of the world, this “lost” mode of prayer has no words or outward expressions. It is based solely in feeling. Specifically, it invites us to feel as if our prayer has already been answered, rather than feeling powerless and needing to ask for help from a higher source. In recent years, studies have shown that it is this very quality of feeling that does, in fact, “speak” to the field that connects us with the world. Through prayers of feeling, we’re empowered to take part in the healing of our lives and relationships, as well as our bodies and our world.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

“Both science and ancient tradition suggest the very same thing: We must embody in our lives the very conditions that we wish to experience in our world.”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom, and Hurt

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― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessings, Wisdom, and Hurt: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom and Hurt

“In another portion of the teaching, Jesus states: "That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves."2 Ultimately, the love that lives within each of us is the source of all healing that we experience. To feel our love, however, we must be vulnerable to our pain. Hurt is one way for us to know how deeply we can feel. Our capacity to feel pain within ourselves, as well as have empathy for the pain of”
― Gregg Braden, Secrets of the Lost Mode of Prayer: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessings, Wisdom, and Hurt: The Hidden Power of Beauty, Blessing, Wisdom and Hurt