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Intimate Conversations with the Divine: Prayer, Guidance, and Grace
From the New York Times best-selling author of Sacred Contracts and Anatomy of the Spirit, a timely guide with 100 prayers for entering into a personal relationship with the Divine.***In her most personal book to date, beloved teacher and best-selling author Caroline Myss draws on her own practice to help us regain our fluency in the language of prayer and renew our connection to the sacred.Intimate Conversations with the Divine offers 100 of Myss's personal prayers as a resource and inspiration to start a prayer practice of your own. Each prayer illustrates a different type of grace that feeds the human soul, from awakening, endurance, and healing, to silence, surrender, and trust. "We are one holy system of life and great cosmic truth, which is that all life-including all of us-breathes together," Myss writes. "I hope this book, these prayers, will bring you comfort and grace, and help you through the difficult times ahead. And I hope they will inspire you to believe that with God, all things are possible."
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First published September 1, 2020
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Caroline Myss
173 books1,029 followersCaroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.
She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.
By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.
Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.
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May 3, 2021
A thoughtful and spiritually grounded book of prayer devotions. Every time I chose one of the prayer devotions to read, it was just what I needed to hear.
October 19, 2020
A truly beautiful and uplifting book. Everything I have felt and needed during this time is within these pages. Filled me with hope and love. If you are just needing even a little pick me up, this is a go to book. Thank you Caroline for sharing your words and your prayers. For your love and vulnerability.
March 29, 2021
I can’t say I’ll ever be “finished” with this spiritually uplifting book of prayers. I have found guidance and comfort in each of the prayers and look forward to tapping into them on a daily basis.
March 15, 2022
If you are not ready for this book it will seem to be a boring waste of time, BUT if you are ready you will be going back to it time after time. My prayer for you is that you are ready.
October 30, 2020
This book is wonderful! The prayers and meditations bring deep ideas to the fore.
December 4, 2020
Lovely!
January 8, 2021
I struggle with praying and this opened up a new way to talk to God and not feel uncomfortable. These prayers are beautiful and eye opening at the same time.
March 17, 2021
Hi, I started watching Caroline's YouTube channel during the pandemic and found out about the new book. I have read a few of her other books before. I read one prayer a day for 100 days. Worth checking out if you are trying to integrate prayer onto your life or experiment with a different technique. I have begun to try these conversations the way it's presented and it's a very good practice. Recommended.
January 3, 2023
HIGHLIGHTS:
1. Chaos is your miracle atmosphere, spinning the ingredients with which you work wonders.
2. Choice Comes First:
- Choice directs our light, and compassionate choices are the ones that require the most courage of all.
- Let compassion flow through me to others.
3. Whispers reach heaven.
– Heaven plays the long game.
- Our happiness is not a divine priority.
4. Love silences pride.
- There is great freedom in releasing the illusion that the world spins around me.
- We are driven to acts of trying to control what cannot be controlled: other people and the outcomes of events in life.
- We are free when we release the judgment of others.
5. True Lesson: Love is the most difficult of all life‘s lessons.
6. Change is constant: Prepare yourself from within to be able to handle any change that comes your way.
- Beginnings are filled with opportunities to make different choices, reboot, to start a new one.
7. Mourning: we cannot comprehend the swiftness of our own lifetime.
- Karma has an eternity of reasons for why things happen as they do.
11. The continuum of life does not stop for anything or anyone.
- The better choice is to become a good passenger, skilled in navigating the cycles of nature.
12. Gut instinct: The grace of trust is one of the core graces of the soul.
- This grace has a way of focusing your attention on positive inner messages and reminders of the many ways you have always survived difficult situations.
14. GRACE: Entering silence is the choice to turn your attention inward with the intent to listen for the wrestling of holy wind in your soul.
15. Living in harmony with nature is a wise lifestyle choice that can greatly reduce the unnecessary suffering that comes from working against the laws of nature.
- wisdom is among the most essential graces of the human experience.
17. Release the need to know why things happen as they do. We feel entitled to explanations.
- God does not answer questions, God answers prayers.
- Perhaps divine wisdom and logic follow laws that spend lifetimes and not just the here and now.
- Every lifetime includes ALL lifetimes.
- Every choice we have made is hidden in every consequence.
- We are incapable of the calculations required to understand the mathematics of karma.
18. Trust springs from deep within our gut and flows to our hearts.
- It is a survival Grace. It gives us the stamina to hold on through challenging times and endure difficult experiences.
- In our gut and heart, we can sense and trust that there is a purpose to what and why things happen as they do.
19. The “why” question can be answered by us. We need only have the courage to examine the field of choices and consequence in which we live and make decisions.
- A good amount of our suffering is self-inflicted.
20. Soul Alert: The second you sense yourself compromising who you are, recognize that sensation as a soul alert.
- The great skill of darkness is that it seeks to weaken us: Our resolve, our stamina, our instincts, our character, and eventually our soul.
- Check out how you feel when you say something that is not true or when you agree to something that actually does not sit well with you.
- Every thought, every action, every word we say is an act of creation, a choice to set grace into motion, or not.
21. We must treat the whole of ourselves or we do not heal.
- becoming a whole person is a rigorous undertaking.
23. At the end of the day, the length of our lives is a cosmic decision and what power we have is best directed to quality control choices.
- we can appreciate our gift and share the talents of our life with others, hopefully enhancing their lives.
- If we invest grace and love in our lives, grace and love I returned 100 times.
- Every choice we make really does matter. Even if we can’t see why or how.
- Pray and follow divine guidance.
- A deep sense of trust, comfort, and acceptance gradually energizes us as we grow into the rhythm of praying, trusting, acting, and accepting.
24. Our soul recognizes the sparkle of divine light. That state of blissful wonder is perhaps the purest state of expectancy.
26. I always expect god.
28. Angels have a non-interference policy. Guidance is their task. The choice is ours.
- The stuff of the physical world is the end product of our collective choices.
- Real change begins in the invisible world. It starts with listening to the guidance of our angels.
- What is required of us is learning to trust the voice of our soul.
- Angelic guidance is directed at assisting you in the management of your consciousness. Angels are tasked with guarding the path of your soul. You can trust their guidance to be the truth.
- Trust requires prayer.
29. People do not want to believe in God because it helps them anesthetize their own consciences.
- evil has human fingerprints all over it.
- It is in our best interest to “humble up “and become spiritually law-abiding humans.
- The law of balance is key to our well-being. We have dark potential and we have light potential. We must choose in each moment whether to engage our light or our shadow. And together, we reside in some of our choices, the human experience.
31. Knowingness: a mystical tool through which the divine speaks to us. We experience an immediate shift in consciousness. One minute we do not know, and suddenly there’s a sense of absolute confidence.
- It is an experience validated by the immediate empowerment you sense that eradicates all insecurities.
32. We don’t find happiness. We become it. We embody it. We decide to see our life through a different lens.
- Happiness begins the second we stop believing it is somewhere other than here.
- Compassion is meant to be used, not stored.
33. Grace does not reveal outcomes or assurances of how anything will work out.
- Everything unfolds according to our choices.
- Grace assures us that when moments of choice arise. We will somehow be able to rely upon ourselves to make decisions that might even surprise us.
35. Evil relies upon the weak side of human nature: fear, arrogance, vulnerability, and disbelief in evil itself, and its presence and power in our lives.
- brave, prayerful people do not negotiate their values or their character.
- The grace of protection is real, and it is essential. We also need protection from the influences of the subtle realm.
- Our worst enemies are invisible: our fears and the fears of others, our weaknesses, and the dark inner narratives we often tell ourselves that are not true.
- Everyone needs the grace of protection.
36. Transformation is it long journey, a rigorous one, and always a painful one.
- We work on ourselves and transform those parts that do not service.
- Heaven is an invisible ally: Divine intervention occurs at the point when we have exhausted our resources, or when we find ourselves in a predicament due to our own innocence or absence of awareness.
38. It is the storms that refine our instincts, not calm waters.
- I must learn to navigate every storm as best I can.
39. Heaven will not compensate for the work you must do on yourself.
- know who you are and what motivates you.
- You search out the dark until there is no more, and then you allow the light to speak to you.
- there is no such thing as a small act of darkness. Someone is always harmed, yourself or someone you love, and committing conscious harm is a definition of what it means to sin.
40. Everyone craves their natural path, the way of their own nature. You have hidden along that path. Guidance abounds in that inner labyrinth.
- All roads lead to a single realization: add until you were living in your authentic skin, you will resent not living there.
- Your spirit will not let you rest until you are conscious enough to recognize distractions.
- Only then you can choose not to engage with them.
41. The active doing of what is asked of you with an open heart is actually a living prayer.
42. Wisdom is one of the graces you can seek out. Allow the wise guidance of the ancestors, who are inspired by angels, to inspire you.
43. No matter in what form of guidance comes to you, when it does, act on it. Surrender to it. He never speaks in paragraphs and it never sends unnecessary messages.
47. Every relationship we have is a companion on our spiritual path.
- everything is a manifestation of the partnership between the human spirit and the divine.
- Your biological response to the spiritual truth that is active in your soul.
- The Soul Thrives on Truth: Today we must cope with the stress generated by not living in alignment with what we know to be the truth.
- Your stress is so deep, originating in the fact that they are consciously compromising secret truths. That is a crisis of the soul.
- Endurance communicates that there are challenges in life that we simply must endure.
48. Rejection is Protection:
- The spiritual plan for your life is an ongoing plan.
- Guidance works from within us as well as around us.
- External events are here to serve our internal spiritual life.
- Heaven does not solve our problems for us, it inspires us with resolutions, and ways to initiate action in the world, for the purpose of furthering our soul's journey.
- Trust brings detachment. You do not have to interfere with Heaven’s work. If you knew what was best for you, you would not need heaven’s help.
49. Injustice is so difficult because we want to control the order of life and everyone in it.
- If people truly understood the ongoing presence and power of divine order and folding in every moment, we would no longer feel we had to control nature.
- Choices generate consequences.
- Prayer generates grace.
50. The Demon’s Voice: Theresa of Avila always told her nuns that at the moment you believe you are safe in darkness, he standing right next to you.
- Justice Angels inspire us with Grace-filled thoughts and often strand us with common encouragement, demons know our weaknesses and add them with fear.
- We have the shadow and the light within us.
- That part of ourselves that gives us permission to do all things harmful, weak, deceptive, and even nasty.
- We count on that voice to provide us with an excuse for bad behavior.
-When they each had
- One day we each have to confront our partnership with darkness.
- I need the grace to discern why I dance with that darkness.
51. Mystical guidance enters into you softly, like a thought suddenly occurs to you out of the blue. Medical guidance is well kind and well-placed so as not to be missed.
52. Prayers are always answered, and in a way that serves all concerned.
53. pray: direct to create a power of our souls into those high acts of grace that influence creation.
- The laws of creation say that our actions create consequences and that we must experience the consequences of our actions. That is the dynamic accretion.
54. Prayer is your way of choosing God’s help, but you still have to do your part.
- Prayer blends holy intention with your intention.
- Our soul resides in the present moment, and the fear now. It is capable of receiving insights and resolutions to obstacles that our minds could never conceive of.
55. Heaven is not a parent. It is a governing system of laws, choices, and consequences.
- It is time we shed the burden of believing that life was meant to be easy, just, fair, or anything other than what it has always been.
- Life is a journey of choices and consequences, action and reaction. Whether we navigate it by faith or fear is up to us.
- Fortitude speaks to you in its own voice, and it doesn’t say but a word or two. Just enough to lead you through the darkest moment.
59. We can only blame ourselves for the consequences of our own behavior.
- We need God’s help to survive the suffering that comes from our need to think we are extraordinary, special, and not part of the whole.
60. Compassion calls us to act in ways that baffle our reason.
- Compassion dissolves self-righteousness and moves us to act as we would have others treat us in our moments of greatest need.
61. Set yourself free. Pray like you have nothing to lose except your fear.
- Faith says miracles happen all the time.
62. Soul illness exists. Prayers are the only medicine that works.
63. Imagine this truth: that every person you meet has the power to potentially change the rest of your life.
- if I am grateful for having been spared, please give me the grace of compassion to help those who are suffering.
65. We are living in a spiritual reality show. Every choice we make is carefully watched. Nothing is missed. We do not get away with anything.
- God is organic holy light, breathing life into the system of creation.
66. The weave of holy intimacy is organic divinity at work within the fabric of life. We need to use those holy threads for the higher purpose of sending grace to others in need.
67. Love is empowering. It is the substance that channels life in hope and wonders back into a human being.
- when you do not return anger and rage to someone, you release yourself from the endless cycle of hatred inventions.
- Holding onto wounds and hurt feelings is a choice. You are making a personal choice to dwell in a state of suffering.
68. The holy world is an intimate realm and it surrounds us. It is everywhere.
- We are wired to hear our invisible support team, our holy guides. Prayer is the route.
69. All that matters in the journey is whether we lived by the truth and how he treated our fellow human beings.
71. I will have to account for my acts of creation when I leave this earth. We do not get the gift of all this power and do not have to account for it.
- If only we realized we were creating our own suffering with the power of our dark creativity.
72. I think of Grace of protection as a cloak of invisibility floating around me. No one can see it, but I know it’s there. It’s like an electric fence that burns up the energy of dark thoughts before they can get to me.
74. Everyone receives guidance. Messages are sent to us constantly.
- Humility is the grace that reminds us we know nothing at all, or not quite enough, are we just aren’t as right as we thought we were.
77. There is nothing as powerful as a soul filled with faith.
78. We take cover in denial because we do not want the illusions we hold dear to be revealed.
- Change occurs as soon as the power of truth comes in. That power liberates a person.
- The spiritual journey is only about truth.
80. A merciful God who prevents our foolish decisions from incarnating into our lives.
82. Your divine intervention occurs in the second it is required. Not a moment before, because it is not required at that moment. Miracles arrive only when they are essential.
- Providence is that powerful grace that falls upon you to ensure that you will be where you need to be when you need to be there.
- Everyone’s map needs to be rerouted at times due to life circumstances. That’s when we must rely most upon prayer, trust, and guidance.
83. Divine Eyes: Your soul is tasked with rigorously peeling away illusion and guiding you to discover your inner senses, the part of you that intuits truth in a way your physical senses cannot.
- you’ll discover heaven hidden in the small details of your life.
- Grace always calls you to action. From clarity comes choice. Grace never lets you sit still for too long. It’s a change agent.
85. Joy is an exceptional grace: it lifts your spirit beyond the boundaries of the ordinary emotions in which we dwell during our days.
- You can nurture joyfulness in any circumstance, simply because you choose to experience life through the grace of joy.
- Joyfulness is a deeply mature soul Grace that defies logic and reason— as do so many of the events of our lives.
86. Prayer enhances the power of laws. When enough prayers are said, generating enough grace, heaven intervenes and the natural laws bend to our needs. That’s what we call a miracle.
87. Charism: we each have a unique inner grace that is meant to be discovered and shared within our circle of life.
- Each person‘s inner treasure is a shade of holy light that only they radiate, a light that embodies spiritual gifts perfectly calibrated to one’s unique life path.
88. Evil: Darkness relies upon human arrogance, greed, and weakness. These are the doorways through which evil can enter and have its way with us.
- The dark has never had such a hold on the global community. Never before have so many people detached from prayer or from the belief that the soul requires the protection of grace.
- We have given the dark its greatest tool: our arrogance.
- Evil is as active a force in our lives, just as divine guidance.
- We must rely on the intuitive guidance we receive from our soul.
- This intuitive guidance, our conscious, alerts us to what is wrong and right, good and evil, humane and unjust, moral and immoral. These codes of the soul are trans-religious.
- This relationship between light and darkness explains why free will and choice are so powerful.
- Our decisions direct the creation and influence of all the experiences we have in our personal and global life.
- Nothing short of a sense of our own insignificance can snap us out of an attack of self-importance.
90. Grace is the oxygen of the soul.
91. Love is a light that all living creatures crave the most
92. Caring for others is never the wrong choice
- Truth is the greatest change agent in life. We need the courage to see the truth, to accept the truth in ourselves first, or we will not be clear-sighted or honest about our motivations in speaking with others.
93. We need holy witnesses in our lives: those who love us enough to tell us the truth. Those we trust deeply enough to listen to when they reflect that we are strength from our path or our integrity.
- Truth is the greatest change agent in life. We need the courage to see the truth, to accept the truth in ourselves first, or we will not be clearly cited or honest about our motivations and speaking with others.
94. Love is your life in action.
- Divine love is the grace you need in order to heal the wounds in your heart that you cannot heal yourself.
98. Light has authority over the dark.
- Divine light flows through our blood and bones, through our thoughts and emotions. That is the presence of God in us.
99. Holy language is a transmission of grace.
- Notice others.
100. Be a lightning rod of grace.
- The choice is always about love.
- combine love with faith = direct line to God.
1. Chaos is your miracle atmosphere, spinning the ingredients with which you work wonders.
2. Choice Comes First:
- Choice directs our light, and compassionate choices are the ones that require the most courage of all.
- Let compassion flow through me to others.
3. Whispers reach heaven.
– Heaven plays the long game.
- Our happiness is not a divine priority.
4. Love silences pride.
- There is great freedom in releasing the illusion that the world spins around me.
- We are driven to acts of trying to control what cannot be controlled: other people and the outcomes of events in life.
- We are free when we release the judgment of others.
5. True Lesson: Love is the most difficult of all life‘s lessons.
6. Change is constant: Prepare yourself from within to be able to handle any change that comes your way.
- Beginnings are filled with opportunities to make different choices, reboot, to start a new one.
7. Mourning: we cannot comprehend the swiftness of our own lifetime.
- Karma has an eternity of reasons for why things happen as they do.
11. The continuum of life does not stop for anything or anyone.
- The better choice is to become a good passenger, skilled in navigating the cycles of nature.
12. Gut instinct: The grace of trust is one of the core graces of the soul.
- This grace has a way of focusing your attention on positive inner messages and reminders of the many ways you have always survived difficult situations.
14. GRACE: Entering silence is the choice to turn your attention inward with the intent to listen for the wrestling of holy wind in your soul.
15. Living in harmony with nature is a wise lifestyle choice that can greatly reduce the unnecessary suffering that comes from working against the laws of nature.
- wisdom is among the most essential graces of the human experience.
17. Release the need to know why things happen as they do. We feel entitled to explanations.
- God does not answer questions, God answers prayers.
- Perhaps divine wisdom and logic follow laws that spend lifetimes and not just the here and now.
- Every lifetime includes ALL lifetimes.
- Every choice we have made is hidden in every consequence.
- We are incapable of the calculations required to understand the mathematics of karma.
18. Trust springs from deep within our gut and flows to our hearts.
- It is a survival Grace. It gives us the stamina to hold on through challenging times and endure difficult experiences.
- In our gut and heart, we can sense and trust that there is a purpose to what and why things happen as they do.
19. The “why” question can be answered by us. We need only have the courage to examine the field of choices and consequence in which we live and make decisions.
- A good amount of our suffering is self-inflicted.
20. Soul Alert: The second you sense yourself compromising who you are, recognize that sensation as a soul alert.
- The great skill of darkness is that it seeks to weaken us: Our resolve, our stamina, our instincts, our character, and eventually our soul.
- Check out how you feel when you say something that is not true or when you agree to something that actually does not sit well with you.
- Every thought, every action, every word we say is an act of creation, a choice to set grace into motion, or not.
21. We must treat the whole of ourselves or we do not heal.
- becoming a whole person is a rigorous undertaking.
23. At the end of the day, the length of our lives is a cosmic decision and what power we have is best directed to quality control choices.
- we can appreciate our gift and share the talents of our life with others, hopefully enhancing their lives.
- If we invest grace and love in our lives, grace and love I returned 100 times.
- Every choice we make really does matter. Even if we can’t see why or how.
- Pray and follow divine guidance.
- A deep sense of trust, comfort, and acceptance gradually energizes us as we grow into the rhythm of praying, trusting, acting, and accepting.
24. Our soul recognizes the sparkle of divine light. That state of blissful wonder is perhaps the purest state of expectancy.
26. I always expect god.
28. Angels have a non-interference policy. Guidance is their task. The choice is ours.
- The stuff of the physical world is the end product of our collective choices.
- Real change begins in the invisible world. It starts with listening to the guidance of our angels.
- What is required of us is learning to trust the voice of our soul.
- Angelic guidance is directed at assisting you in the management of your consciousness. Angels are tasked with guarding the path of your soul. You can trust their guidance to be the truth.
- Trust requires prayer.
29. People do not want to believe in God because it helps them anesthetize their own consciences.
- evil has human fingerprints all over it.
- It is in our best interest to “humble up “and become spiritually law-abiding humans.
- The law of balance is key to our well-being. We have dark potential and we have light potential. We must choose in each moment whether to engage our light or our shadow. And together, we reside in some of our choices, the human experience.
31. Knowingness: a mystical tool through which the divine speaks to us. We experience an immediate shift in consciousness. One minute we do not know, and suddenly there’s a sense of absolute confidence.
- It is an experience validated by the immediate empowerment you sense that eradicates all insecurities.
32. We don’t find happiness. We become it. We embody it. We decide to see our life through a different lens.
- Happiness begins the second we stop believing it is somewhere other than here.
- Compassion is meant to be used, not stored.
33. Grace does not reveal outcomes or assurances of how anything will work out.
- Everything unfolds according to our choices.
- Grace assures us that when moments of choice arise. We will somehow be able to rely upon ourselves to make decisions that might even surprise us.
35. Evil relies upon the weak side of human nature: fear, arrogance, vulnerability, and disbelief in evil itself, and its presence and power in our lives.
- brave, prayerful people do not negotiate their values or their character.
- The grace of protection is real, and it is essential. We also need protection from the influences of the subtle realm.
- Our worst enemies are invisible: our fears and the fears of others, our weaknesses, and the dark inner narratives we often tell ourselves that are not true.
- Everyone needs the grace of protection.
36. Transformation is it long journey, a rigorous one, and always a painful one.
- We work on ourselves and transform those parts that do not service.
- Heaven is an invisible ally: Divine intervention occurs at the point when we have exhausted our resources, or when we find ourselves in a predicament due to our own innocence or absence of awareness.
38. It is the storms that refine our instincts, not calm waters.
- I must learn to navigate every storm as best I can.
39. Heaven will not compensate for the work you must do on yourself.
- know who you are and what motivates you.
- You search out the dark until there is no more, and then you allow the light to speak to you.
- there is no such thing as a small act of darkness. Someone is always harmed, yourself or someone you love, and committing conscious harm is a definition of what it means to sin.
40. Everyone craves their natural path, the way of their own nature. You have hidden along that path. Guidance abounds in that inner labyrinth.
- All roads lead to a single realization: add until you were living in your authentic skin, you will resent not living there.
- Your spirit will not let you rest until you are conscious enough to recognize distractions.
- Only then you can choose not to engage with them.
41. The active doing of what is asked of you with an open heart is actually a living prayer.
42. Wisdom is one of the graces you can seek out. Allow the wise guidance of the ancestors, who are inspired by angels, to inspire you.
43. No matter in what form of guidance comes to you, when it does, act on it. Surrender to it. He never speaks in paragraphs and it never sends unnecessary messages.
47. Every relationship we have is a companion on our spiritual path.
- everything is a manifestation of the partnership between the human spirit and the divine.
- Your biological response to the spiritual truth that is active in your soul.
- The Soul Thrives on Truth: Today we must cope with the stress generated by not living in alignment with what we know to be the truth.
- Your stress is so deep, originating in the fact that they are consciously compromising secret truths. That is a crisis of the soul.
- Endurance communicates that there are challenges in life that we simply must endure.
48. Rejection is Protection:
- The spiritual plan for your life is an ongoing plan.
- Guidance works from within us as well as around us.
- External events are here to serve our internal spiritual life.
- Heaven does not solve our problems for us, it inspires us with resolutions, and ways to initiate action in the world, for the purpose of furthering our soul's journey.
- Trust brings detachment. You do not have to interfere with Heaven’s work. If you knew what was best for you, you would not need heaven’s help.
49. Injustice is so difficult because we want to control the order of life and everyone in it.
- If people truly understood the ongoing presence and power of divine order and folding in every moment, we would no longer feel we had to control nature.
- Choices generate consequences.
- Prayer generates grace.
50. The Demon’s Voice: Theresa of Avila always told her nuns that at the moment you believe you are safe in darkness, he standing right next to you.
- Justice Angels inspire us with Grace-filled thoughts and often strand us with common encouragement, demons know our weaknesses and add them with fear.
- We have the shadow and the light within us.
- That part of ourselves that gives us permission to do all things harmful, weak, deceptive, and even nasty.
- We count on that voice to provide us with an excuse for bad behavior.
-When they each had
- One day we each have to confront our partnership with darkness.
- I need the grace to discern why I dance with that darkness.
51. Mystical guidance enters into you softly, like a thought suddenly occurs to you out of the blue. Medical guidance is well kind and well-placed so as not to be missed.
52. Prayers are always answered, and in a way that serves all concerned.
53. pray: direct to create a power of our souls into those high acts of grace that influence creation.
- The laws of creation say that our actions create consequences and that we must experience the consequences of our actions. That is the dynamic accretion.
54. Prayer is your way of choosing God’s help, but you still have to do your part.
- Prayer blends holy intention with your intention.
- Our soul resides in the present moment, and the fear now. It is capable of receiving insights and resolutions to obstacles that our minds could never conceive of.
55. Heaven is not a parent. It is a governing system of laws, choices, and consequences.
- It is time we shed the burden of believing that life was meant to be easy, just, fair, or anything other than what it has always been.
- Life is a journey of choices and consequences, action and reaction. Whether we navigate it by faith or fear is up to us.
- Fortitude speaks to you in its own voice, and it doesn’t say but a word or two. Just enough to lead you through the darkest moment.
59. We can only blame ourselves for the consequences of our own behavior.
- We need God’s help to survive the suffering that comes from our need to think we are extraordinary, special, and not part of the whole.
60. Compassion calls us to act in ways that baffle our reason.
- Compassion dissolves self-righteousness and moves us to act as we would have others treat us in our moments of greatest need.
61. Set yourself free. Pray like you have nothing to lose except your fear.
- Faith says miracles happen all the time.
62. Soul illness exists. Prayers are the only medicine that works.
63. Imagine this truth: that every person you meet has the power to potentially change the rest of your life.
- if I am grateful for having been spared, please give me the grace of compassion to help those who are suffering.
65. We are living in a spiritual reality show. Every choice we make is carefully watched. Nothing is missed. We do not get away with anything.
- God is organic holy light, breathing life into the system of creation.
66. The weave of holy intimacy is organic divinity at work within the fabric of life. We need to use those holy threads for the higher purpose of sending grace to others in need.
67. Love is empowering. It is the substance that channels life in hope and wonders back into a human being.
- when you do not return anger and rage to someone, you release yourself from the endless cycle of hatred inventions.
- Holding onto wounds and hurt feelings is a choice. You are making a personal choice to dwell in a state of suffering.
68. The holy world is an intimate realm and it surrounds us. It is everywhere.
- We are wired to hear our invisible support team, our holy guides. Prayer is the route.
69. All that matters in the journey is whether we lived by the truth and how he treated our fellow human beings.
71. I will have to account for my acts of creation when I leave this earth. We do not get the gift of all this power and do not have to account for it.
- If only we realized we were creating our own suffering with the power of our dark creativity.
72. I think of Grace of protection as a cloak of invisibility floating around me. No one can see it, but I know it’s there. It’s like an electric fence that burns up the energy of dark thoughts before they can get to me.
74. Everyone receives guidance. Messages are sent to us constantly.
- Humility is the grace that reminds us we know nothing at all, or not quite enough, are we just aren’t as right as we thought we were.
77. There is nothing as powerful as a soul filled with faith.
78. We take cover in denial because we do not want the illusions we hold dear to be revealed.
- Change occurs as soon as the power of truth comes in. That power liberates a person.
- The spiritual journey is only about truth.
80. A merciful God who prevents our foolish decisions from incarnating into our lives.
82. Your divine intervention occurs in the second it is required. Not a moment before, because it is not required at that moment. Miracles arrive only when they are essential.
- Providence is that powerful grace that falls upon you to ensure that you will be where you need to be when you need to be there.
- Everyone’s map needs to be rerouted at times due to life circumstances. That’s when we must rely most upon prayer, trust, and guidance.
83. Divine Eyes: Your soul is tasked with rigorously peeling away illusion and guiding you to discover your inner senses, the part of you that intuits truth in a way your physical senses cannot.
- you’ll discover heaven hidden in the small details of your life.
- Grace always calls you to action. From clarity comes choice. Grace never lets you sit still for too long. It’s a change agent.
85. Joy is an exceptional grace: it lifts your spirit beyond the boundaries of the ordinary emotions in which we dwell during our days.
- You can nurture joyfulness in any circumstance, simply because you choose to experience life through the grace of joy.
- Joyfulness is a deeply mature soul Grace that defies logic and reason— as do so many of the events of our lives.
86. Prayer enhances the power of laws. When enough prayers are said, generating enough grace, heaven intervenes and the natural laws bend to our needs. That’s what we call a miracle.
87. Charism: we each have a unique inner grace that is meant to be discovered and shared within our circle of life.
- Each person‘s inner treasure is a shade of holy light that only they radiate, a light that embodies spiritual gifts perfectly calibrated to one’s unique life path.
88. Evil: Darkness relies upon human arrogance, greed, and weakness. These are the doorways through which evil can enter and have its way with us.
- The dark has never had such a hold on the global community. Never before have so many people detached from prayer or from the belief that the soul requires the protection of grace.
- We have given the dark its greatest tool: our arrogance.
- Evil is as active a force in our lives, just as divine guidance.
- We must rely on the intuitive guidance we receive from our soul.
- This intuitive guidance, our conscious, alerts us to what is wrong and right, good and evil, humane and unjust, moral and immoral. These codes of the soul are trans-religious.
- This relationship between light and darkness explains why free will and choice are so powerful.
- Our decisions direct the creation and influence of all the experiences we have in our personal and global life.
- Nothing short of a sense of our own insignificance can snap us out of an attack of self-importance.
90. Grace is the oxygen of the soul.
91. Love is a light that all living creatures crave the most
92. Caring for others is never the wrong choice
- Truth is the greatest change agent in life. We need the courage to see the truth, to accept the truth in ourselves first, or we will not be clear-sighted or honest about our motivations in speaking with others.
93. We need holy witnesses in our lives: those who love us enough to tell us the truth. Those we trust deeply enough to listen to when they reflect that we are strength from our path or our integrity.
- Truth is the greatest change agent in life. We need the courage to see the truth, to accept the truth in ourselves first, or we will not be clearly cited or honest about our motivations and speaking with others.
94. Love is your life in action.
- Divine love is the grace you need in order to heal the wounds in your heart that you cannot heal yourself.
98. Light has authority over the dark.
- Divine light flows through our blood and bones, through our thoughts and emotions. That is the presence of God in us.
99. Holy language is a transmission of grace.
- Notice others.
100. Be a lightning rod of grace.
- The choice is always about love.
- combine love with faith = direct line to God.
July 9, 2025
Carolyn Myss’ Intimate Conversations is a treasure trove of insights on the sacred art of true connection—both with ourselves and with others. Through her own brand of spiritual wisdom, Myss explores the powerful role of communication in creating depth, healing, and understanding in our most intimate relationships. She teaches us how to break down the walls we’ve built around our hearts and invites us to embrace vulnerability as the path to profound emotional intimacy. It’s an invitation to dive deep into not just what we say, but how we listen, how we understand, and how we truly show up for others.
This message aligns seamlessly with my second pillar—If it’s not a Hell Yes, it’s a No. Myss speaks to the importance of discerning when to engage and when to protect your energy, especially in relationships that drain you or no longer serve your truth. Her wisdom invites you to stop speaking out of obligation or fear and to instead, speak from a place of deep alignment with your heart. True intimacy isn’t about saying “yes” to everything—it’s about choosing when and how to show up authentically, even when it means saying “no” to the people-pleasing patterns we often fall into.
The book also reflects Take Personal Responsibility in the most empowering way. Myss reminds us that the health of our relationships begins with us. If we are not in tune with our own needs, boundaries, and emotions, it becomes nearly impossible to create healthy, intimate connections with others. In my own work, I stress how important it is to be the first to offer love and understanding to yourself—and Myss underscores this truth as she explains how much our inner world shapes the relationships we cultivate.
Intimate Conversations is a beautiful reminder that our relationships are sacred spaces for growth and transformation. If you’re ready to move beyond superficial connections and cultivate deeper, more conscious intimacy in your life, Carolyn Myss offers both the spiritual tools and practical advice to guide you. This book is an essential read for anyone who’s ready to communicate, connect, and heal at a profound level.
To explore more of Myss’ work and dive into the wisdom of this book, visit carolynmyss.com.
This message aligns seamlessly with my second pillar—If it’s not a Hell Yes, it’s a No. Myss speaks to the importance of discerning when to engage and when to protect your energy, especially in relationships that drain you or no longer serve your truth. Her wisdom invites you to stop speaking out of obligation or fear and to instead, speak from a place of deep alignment with your heart. True intimacy isn’t about saying “yes” to everything—it’s about choosing when and how to show up authentically, even when it means saying “no” to the people-pleasing patterns we often fall into.
The book also reflects Take Personal Responsibility in the most empowering way. Myss reminds us that the health of our relationships begins with us. If we are not in tune with our own needs, boundaries, and emotions, it becomes nearly impossible to create healthy, intimate connections with others. In my own work, I stress how important it is to be the first to offer love and understanding to yourself—and Myss underscores this truth as she explains how much our inner world shapes the relationships we cultivate.
Intimate Conversations is a beautiful reminder that our relationships are sacred spaces for growth and transformation. If you’re ready to move beyond superficial connections and cultivate deeper, more conscious intimacy in your life, Carolyn Myss offers both the spiritual tools and practical advice to guide you. This book is an essential read for anyone who’s ready to communicate, connect, and heal at a profound level.
To explore more of Myss’ work and dive into the wisdom of this book, visit carolynmyss.com.
June 8, 2021
A very thoughtful look at Grace and guidance on prayer...
Quotes:
“Grace Compassion is a grace that allows for the flow of impersonal love toward others. Compassion expands your heart and anesthetizes your judgment of others. You are often inspired with the desire to embrace the other, but not from sentiment or pity. Rather, the deeper humanitarian cords that unite us as human beings animate within you. Lord, Compassion is a powerful grace. It does not discriminate. Having a compassionate heart can be risky. But what other choice is there? If I look upon others with harsh judgment, I must imagine myself in their shoes—because what I do to another person, I am doing to myself. So, open my heart to Compassion, Lord. Hover over me with endless guidance as I learn to live as one with all sentient beings. 11 Make ME RESILIENT Prayer I MARVEL AT THE RESILIENCE of nature, Lord.”
“truth many times with students, observing how many respond to that revelation with utter panic. “What should I do? How do I cleanse myself of that?” I have to laugh. Do you think a few organic vegetables will somehow separate you from the fundamental design of life—that all is one? My suggestion, as I have said to so many, is that when you feel anxiety and stress building up in your energy system, do not assume that it is necessarily yours. You may be channeling collective anxiety and stress, breathing collective psychic free radicals generated by all of us. Grace, generated through prayer, is the antidote.”
“But I have not openly admitted that breaking my word or lying are acts of darkness.”
Quotes:
“Grace Compassion is a grace that allows for the flow of impersonal love toward others. Compassion expands your heart and anesthetizes your judgment of others. You are often inspired with the desire to embrace the other, but not from sentiment or pity. Rather, the deeper humanitarian cords that unite us as human beings animate within you. Lord, Compassion is a powerful grace. It does not discriminate. Having a compassionate heart can be risky. But what other choice is there? If I look upon others with harsh judgment, I must imagine myself in their shoes—because what I do to another person, I am doing to myself. So, open my heart to Compassion, Lord. Hover over me with endless guidance as I learn to live as one with all sentient beings. 11 Make ME RESILIENT Prayer I MARVEL AT THE RESILIENCE of nature, Lord.”
“truth many times with students, observing how many respond to that revelation with utter panic. “What should I do? How do I cleanse myself of that?” I have to laugh. Do you think a few organic vegetables will somehow separate you from the fundamental design of life—that all is one? My suggestion, as I have said to so many, is that when you feel anxiety and stress building up in your energy system, do not assume that it is necessarily yours. You may be channeling collective anxiety and stress, breathing collective psychic free radicals generated by all of us. Grace, generated through prayer, is the antidote.”
“But I have not openly admitted that breaking my word or lying are acts of darkness.”
July 2, 2021
I thoroughly enjoyed how Carolyn Myss takes a non legalistic way of exploring prayer by actually praying. It is such a comforting book and essential to anyone open to have ears to hear or better said a mindset open to contemplate healing and hope. The language is invitational and imperfect in the best ways.
One highlight among many: chapter 82: More Thoughts on the Grace of Providence.
Your life: We will rise up like a phoenix whether we want to or not.....our spirits will spark to life no matter how many times we fall down. That is the promise of our nature. It is the expression of the benevolent loving nature of the divine.
We are designed to rise again, recover, to try again, to love again, to reach out to life and to look up to the heavens for grace. We are designed to be under the providential care of the Divine even down to the promise that we will always Spring back to life even after the darkest winter. Mystic author Carolyn Myss has short prayers like this throughout her book.
It is not conventional/traditional Christianity and seekers who believe the Divine is or is not limited to one Expression of faith will find lots of truth here..
One highlight among many: chapter 82: More Thoughts on the Grace of Providence.
Your life: We will rise up like a phoenix whether we want to or not.....our spirits will spark to life no matter how many times we fall down. That is the promise of our nature. It is the expression of the benevolent loving nature of the divine.
We are designed to rise again, recover, to try again, to love again, to reach out to life and to look up to the heavens for grace. We are designed to be under the providential care of the Divine even down to the promise that we will always Spring back to life even after the darkest winter. Mystic author Carolyn Myss has short prayers like this throughout her book.
It is not conventional/traditional Christianity and seekers who believe the Divine is or is not limited to one Expression of faith will find lots of truth here..
April 4, 2025
Revitalized My Prayer Life
I'm so grateful to Caroline Myss for this collection of prayers. Last year, I began reading more of her works starting with Entering the Castle and A Time for Grace (formerly Defy Gravity), and I listened to her talks on YouTube, and she emphasized for me the power of prayer, something I knew from my mother who started me to praying at a very young age. I'd forgotten that power because many times, it seemed to go unanswered. But now, I know that all my prayers have been answered simply in ways I may not be able to see. Knowing this, I have begun to speak the prayers in this and Ms. Myss' other books and also to craft my own each morning and evening when I write in my journals. It's so nice to see how it's changed things for me and helped me to recognize grace and have gratitude when before it would have been hard for me to reach. Thank you so much for this gift. I look forward to going through all 100 prayers again soon. 🙏🏾
I'm so grateful to Caroline Myss for this collection of prayers. Last year, I began reading more of her works starting with Entering the Castle and A Time for Grace (formerly Defy Gravity), and I listened to her talks on YouTube, and she emphasized for me the power of prayer, something I knew from my mother who started me to praying at a very young age. I'd forgotten that power because many times, it seemed to go unanswered. But now, I know that all my prayers have been answered simply in ways I may not be able to see. Knowing this, I have begun to speak the prayers in this and Ms. Myss' other books and also to craft my own each morning and evening when I write in my journals. It's so nice to see how it's changed things for me and helped me to recognize grace and have gratitude when before it would have been hard for me to reach. Thank you so much for this gift. I look forward to going through all 100 prayers again soon. 🙏🏾
October 18, 2022
I loved this book. I actually listened to this as an audio book rather than reading it. I would listen to it when I was walking and it was perfect for this as each prayer came with bite sized pieces of wisdom. I noticed I always found myself more open hearted and in a better mood every time I listened to it. Also because I listened to it as I walked to meet family or friends I found it helped me show up and be present with them as the best version of myself and I was a little sad when I finished it but fully intend to leave it for a few months and revisit it and listen to it again.
September 9, 2021
Myss gives a beautiful compilation of simple, down-to-earth, timely and heartfelt 'prayer' conversations with a higher power of your choice... I felt the sentiments were somewhat redundant at times, but overall the range of angles, issues and sensitive topics she touches on are extremely relevant to our world today.
Her vulnerability and honesty in the approach to connecting with a divine source are inspirational and evoke an energy of spiritual stamina that our world could benefit from.
Her vulnerability and honesty in the approach to connecting with a divine source are inspirational and evoke an energy of spiritual stamina that our world could benefit from.
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May 14, 2021I wasn't raised in religion and I was curious about the language of prayer. I saw Caroline Myss speak once and I enjoyed it. The book was good, although I'm not fully on board with evil, demons or even angels. It took longer to read than I anticipated because it's a book of prayers and reading it right through didn't suit it.
December 18, 2021
I listened to the author read this book. It is best listened to or read in small pieces. The wisdom contained within the pages gave me a lot to think about and meditate upon; it felt holy and very calming. I’d often stop the recording and listen again to sear it into my brain. A beautiful experience that left me feeling as if I’d grown.
January 15, 2021
This was not something I expected from Caroline Myss. I am a big fan of her work as an intuitive, but I just can’t appreciate prayers being sent to a singular Lord, her God. Totally turned me off and kept me from experiencing the universality for which others praise this book.
May 5, 2021
This is a book that I may never finish, although I've read it from beginning to end. I value Caroline's wisdom, heart and spirituality. Reading a page or two from this book can lift my day and give me words to ponder.
July 29, 2021
I am so glad I found this book, or maybe it found its way to me. It felt like a loving hug, a best friend, and home, to me. I’m grateful for Caroline Myss’s writing and her love to share all of these beautiful prayers and guidance.
July 8, 2024
Took my time with this book reading a few passages a day so I could take it all in. I didn’t realize how much I needed this book and how much it would help me. Definitely going to be picking up more by this author!
August 30, 2025
What a beautiful book. I appreciate how Myss structured this book, the lovely and contemplative prayers present within, and also that the author has written such a strongly spiritual book. Highly recommend!
August 15, 2021
A beautiful book with great simple prayers and reflections on their meaning.
September 8, 2021
A good book to have around should I be inclined to use it for the intended purpose.
September 13, 2021
Caroline Myss is one of my primary guides
And I am so grateful that this prayer book has been shared. A valuable addition to my tools for peace, purpose and sanity. Thank you 🙏🏻
And I am so grateful that this prayer book has been shared. A valuable addition to my tools for peace, purpose and sanity. Thank you 🙏🏻
October 30, 2021
My first introduction to spirituality without religion. Includes 100 meditations or prayers. I am working on my third time through them all.
January 5, 2022
Started reading and then it was trashed.
July 23, 2022
Beautiful collection of 100 prayers. Caroline Myss describes a situation that called for prayer, and then provided Guidance, Grace, and the prayer itself.
March 11, 2023
I like Caroline Myss quite a bit as an author, but this one didn't really do it for me. (Got it on an amazon sale...)
June 24, 2023
Great uplifting prays.
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