Illuminata: A Return to Prayer [Paperback]

From activist, spiritual leader,New York Times-bestselling author, and 2020 presidential candidate Marianne Williamson comes a prayer for healing America

Prayer is practical, Williamson tells us. “To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.”Illuminatadelivers prayer into our daily lives with prayers on topics from releasing anger to finding forgiveness, from finding great love to achieving intimacy. There are prayers for couples, for parents, and for children, prayers to mend broken relationships and prayers to overcome obsessive and compulsive love. There are prayers to heal the soul, prayers to heal the body, and prayers for work and creativity.

Williamson also gives us prayers for the healing of America, including a prayer of amends on behalf of European Americans to African Americans and one to Native Americans. How, Williamson asks, can we expect anyone to forgive when we have made no formal apology?

“Read my prayers or someone else’s,” Williamson says. “By all means, create your own.”Illuminatabrings prayer into practical use, creating a sweeter, more abundant life. “No conventional therapy,” she says, “can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.”A Way In

Introduction

Part I: Thoughts

Part II: Prayers

1. Ladders to God
2. Daily Prayers
Daily Renewal: Prayer and Meditation
Morning Prayer
A New Day
Evening Prayers
3. Prayers for the Soul
Prayers for New Life
Happiness
Prayers for Depression
Prayer for the Higher Self
Clearing Up the Past
Washing Us Clean
Prayer for Faith
Filling the Emptiness
Group Prayer for God's Presence
4. Prayers forlĂ*