{"product_id":"9780940262966","title":"Give Us This Day","description":"Gandhi called prayer \"the key to the morning and the bolt of the evening.\"  But what is prayer? Rufus Goodwin-writer, linguist, and former United Press  correspondent to the Vatican-examines numerous traditions of prayer through  the ages. He discusses practices ranging from the ancient Indian yoga of  sound to the Christian monastic rules of prayer, and he offers examples of  the various religious litanies that ritualize and celebrate the sense of a  higher life.\u003cbr\u003e    \u003cbr\u003eGoodwin intends to get at the essential technique and attitude of prayer as  a key to an active inner life and to an experience of the higher self. He  shows how prayer can restructure our cognition to give us greater access to  renewal, imagination, inspiration, and intuition, and provide an anchor for  meaning in daily life.\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRufus Goodwin went to Yale and Georgetown universities. He has been a United  Press International correspondent to the Vatican, author, freelance  journalist, poet, and novelist. He lives in Boston.  ","brand":"SteinerBooks, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020216484080,"sku":"9780940262966","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780940262966_p0.gif?v=1763869873","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780940262966","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}