My Only Prayer

eric mccarty
2 min readMay 21, 2024
My Only Prayer — Thank you — Gratefulness — Headless Now — Lyrical Prose

My only Prayer:

at first it was a practice, meaning that I had to purposefully remember both words and feeling for the simple phrase “thank you’ as I awoke each morning, it was a ritual designed to invoke the presence of gratitude for the beginning of my day. This was inspired by the German mystic Meister Eckhart who once stated that if the only prayer one ever said in their entire life was thank you, it will be enough. So imagine if I…

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eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student