Crossing not only geography - from West to East - and time - from centuries before Christ to the present - but also mixing on the same altar, Yogananda with Shakespeare, Nietzsche with Ancient Egypt, bedtime songs with songs for rain, timeless recipes for forgiveness with prayers from different native peoples of the Earth: this collection provides a contemporary look at the act of praying, and brings together examples from a multitude of spiritual traditions, and from authors who may not have been religious, dialogued with the divine. The book also includes a special chapter with prayers...