"How do you pray? Is it an hour a week at a designated place of worship or do you take your prayers out to the streets? Do you pray like your parents, culture or tribe or have you found another way? Do you pray to God or do you have another special name or no name at all? Is it a monologue or a conversation or neither? How does your soul express itself when you are in need and how does that differ from your expression when you feel fulfilled? Do you dance in ecstasy? Bare your soul to the divine? Bow in gratitude? Merge with nature? Cry out for guidance?"

These words are from Mirabai Starr's foreword to this eclectic and inspirational collection of prayers from 129 contributors. Here in one place you can sample prayer practices from believers from many of the world's religions, those who are spiritual independents, and those with no affiliations.

Celeste Yacobani serves as editor of How Do You Pray. She was ordained as a minister of Walking Prayer by the Center for Sacred Studies in Sonora, California, and maintains a private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Part of her mission in life is to lead workshops in which people experience and then share different ways of prayer and connecting to Source and each other.

Here is a sampler of the material to give you an idea of the diversity of the ways in which people pray.

• "Fishing is your primary prayer, as long as you do it in an open-hearted way, As long as you let it do something to you, rather than you grasping something with it."
— Brother David Steindl-Rast

• "I pray for others and the Earth by seeing all in its divine light, lifting all who I pray for into radiance."
— Sandra Ingerman

• "In the course of my day, I find opportunity upon opportunity to express thanks by touching my heart."
— Imam Jamal Rahman

• "Sometimes prayers drift in from the dream world . . . and sometimes they rise up from the bottoms of my feet, perhaps emerging from our universal mother and sacred home."
— Nina Simons

• "I pray in the way I welcome and bless people. I pray with whatever emotions come my way."
— Sobonfu Some

• "I don't order God around. I don't presume to know whether life or death is better for me or for anyone I know. . . . All I know is that God is everything and God is good. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it."
— Byron Katie

• "Art is prayer made visible
Music is prayer made audible
Dance is prayer embodied
But the greatest art we practice
Is the art of Compassion
Which is prayer in action and service."
— Gina Rose Halpern

• "Prayer is the butterfly that moves through me with the synchronicity of life, morphing changing, emerging."
— Robyn Benson

This interspiritual prayerbook and resource guide also includes biographical materials on all the contributors.