Monday, June 21, 2010

Sacrifice Of The Ego, Privilege To The Soul Comments

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Praying with ego, or praying with soul,

The ego prayer is our ego, talking.
It sees prayer as a sacrifice of our time,
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Aufie Zophy
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Powerful perspective on prayer. Well done my friend!

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Cynthia Buhain-baello 21 April 2012

Prayer is essentially conversing with God and prayer always changes us. Ego has nothing of God in it and Self is what ego contains. Nothing that the ego does can ever connect to God even if it kneels in prayer because it is itself, focused on Self. Romans 12: 1-2 says I urge you, therefore, in view of God's Mercy, to offer your bodies as pleasing sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God- this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world but be transformed in the renewing of your minds\. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - His good, pleasing, and perfect will. God's will is found in His Word- the Bible. If we pray according to that will, He answers in His time and way. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. (Matthew 21: 22)

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Lasoaphia Quxazs 11 February 2012

I see the many side of ideas, here is mine. Most people prays, begs God for something. Give me give me, When I pray, I give thanks for what I have and I know God will give me anyway what I need if I need something more. I am grateful and He is wonderful to me.

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Lenore Lee 08 September 2011

I love this poem. It says that praying because we have to and staying firm on how to worship is self-destructing. It only upsets others and God himself. This is so beautiful.

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Unwritten Soul 21 August 2011

Huge content, Yes ego is destructive form...God not affected by us but we are affected by Him coz He creates us...The title really bold the meaning, sacrifice the ego, privilege to the soul coz what ego we have? what we can do without God? if we believe and love Him more it really turn peace...about reward is just an encouragement but when we really need Him, He always there and it means a lot for us..Being loved by Creator of all...Lot of beautiful verses there...just great meaning and i Just like it all_Unwritten Soul

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Abdallah Gamal 30 July 2011

A so wise and beautiful poem, , I like the verse that says Dr.tony Brahmin (6/22/2010 3: 29: 00 AM) God is so great and omnipotent that He is not affected by any of our actions. We cannot affect God. Only God can affect us. But the ego prayer is still thinking: If I please God now, make the sacrifice and say the prayers I have memorised, I will get my rewards later, liked these lines very much. really nice poem Sir :)

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Omar Ibrahim 15 August 2010

firstly, God is so great that life is too cheap to sacrifice for him....well expressed here. secondly.you have reached a splendid level of thinking...i think you're muslim right? ..you can't reach this level except after reading the koran and believing in it..you reached the reason why god asked us to pray..a soul pray indeed...it let's us feel how poor wrongdoers we are..and that helps us to emphasize on doing good and avoiding sins..so you reached the reason why we pray, then you will believe in God truly and that's why God asked us to think and 'READ in the name of God who created the man from a dropp of blood'...keep thinking because wisdom and believing in God is built by thinking....and keep writing those beautiful things thanks for sharing

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Naseer Ahmed Nasir 02 August 2010

This is really a great write, Aufie. You have described the difference between ego prayer and soul prayer so well that one can feel a sigh of relief after reading this soulful peace of poetry. warm Regards. Naseer

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Colin J... 26 July 2010

Your writing strikes a chord with me... You have a great talent... When I was younger a bigot asked me if I knew who God was... I replied that ' God is All Things to All Men ' I still believe that... He didn't as he thought God was only for him and his ilk.. A Wonderful Poem... Colin J...

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C N Prem Kumar 22 June 2010

Rich philosophy ornamented with true spirituality. Excellent.

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Malaya Roses 22 June 2010

We are capitalis and uphold profit-aiming action. we never do something without expectation of profit gain and prospect of benefit; we are so used to be self-centered among human, therefore we want to walk on the same path towards GOD. May be this is the time to be more sincere, honest and humble because GOD expect nothing frm us. Human shoud'nt be more arrogant, boast or ego because all those behaviour will takes them nowhere and they are nothing before God.We can't show-off about anything before GOD because the Ultimate Jurisdictions is HIS, not us. Good poem and words usage makes me get the main point of this poem. Thanks.

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Dr Antony Theodore 22 June 2010

God is so great and omnipotent that He is not affected by any of our actions. We cannot affect God. Only God can affect us. But the ego prayer is still thinking: If I please God now, make the sacrifice and say the prayers I have memorised, I will get my rewards later, liked these lines very much. ego plays hide and seek with us. if we really succede in concouring ego tendencies we will live in peace united with the Almighty and with the human beings. you have very well brought this idea into your poem. thank you. sometimes u write like a priest or a priestess.. thank u dear

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Sreekala Sukumaran 22 June 2010

You have penned it so well.. True prayers is always an intimacy between you and God there ego should never play a role.. you have expressed it so beautifully...Need to read more from you...10+++

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At times we need to sacrifically give back to God, and come out of the Bless Me, brigade. Meekness and humbleness before Him is a key. True prayer is intiamacy between one and God, here there should be no ego. Very interesting write.; D

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Amrit Rathi 21 June 2010

Wonderful Divine Exposition very well penned! Ego always have judgment as you rightly pointed out of inferior/superior, strict give and take transaction, not love but unwilling sacrifice and arrogance with God.For soul prayer is gift of God in the form of peace, joy, creativity(intuition) .YOUR POEM REVEAL THIS ALL SUCCINCTLY 10+++ Thanks for inviting.

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