What if there’s something to this after all? Where did Lao Tse learn about the Tao? How did the first Brahmins come up with their concept of Deity? Why did the Druids embrace the same idea? How did Zarathustra speak? What if they were all coming from the same Source? What purpose did their teachings have, that we can use today? Where do they tie together? How can it benefit our own lives? This is what we discover in The Tao of Prayer.

What if we define “religion” as something that changes us for the better and not just an excuse to pat ourselves on the back? For simple ideas? That might be the focus on love of God and neighbor in the most ancient Christian beliefs. It might be the Buddhist teaching on being un-attached from the illusion that what we see is all there is.It might be the practices that let those ideas take root in our own lives. What if there’s something to this after all?

It’s not a new idea that we become like what we worship, or that we tend to go in what direction we are facing. When I rode a motorcycle I learned two things about that. One was that if I craned my head around to see behind me it was hard not to steer which way my head was turning. The other was that mirrors were good for knowing my place on the road.

What if we’re all on the same road? Lao Tse seems to say there is only one. We might be on a side road, or we might be camped out in our Winnebago. Same road, all the same. Where does it lead? How do we get there? What’s behind us? Unless we’re sound asleep in our campers, or maybe busy chasing rabbits up the side roads, these are questions we all ask from time to time. But what are the answers, and whose word do we take for it?

The best voices to listen to are those closest to the Sources. After all, if there’s a good idea to be found there are plenty of people ready to “improve” on it, aren’t there? In The Tao of Prayer you’ll find answers to those questions from sages across the span of time. Not just what this or that one said, but how they connect, and how to follow the connections. I hope you see it soon.