Which is your favorite sacred phrase?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

There are phrases that are sacred to different religions--which is your favorite?

[cliffordu]

1. nevermind

[rurallib]

2. Kyrie on any day for my soul

[grannylib]

3. "We are all relatives"

Always loved that one; used to have a t-shirt with Mitakuye Oyasin on it...

[dweller]

4. i voted for the first

but tend towards the last.

and find in the meantime to remind myself, 'i can do this'

dp

[The Wielding Truth]

5. I don't have a chant or mantra. How does it make you feel?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. I think the answer to that is going to be different for each person

and also, perhaps, different for the individual at different times. I have used all the practices listed, and have found, in general, all give me great peace and sometimes even insight into my life situation. I would say that silence is the most interesting of all the practices, as it is also the most difficult--for you silence not only your mouth but also your mind.

[The Wielding Truth]

17. That would take a lot of discipline or drugs.

:dilemma:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

19. don't know about drugs

just know about practicing.

[TlalocW]

6. You left out Romper Stomper Bomper Boo

When you chant that and look through a magic mirror you can see other people in my religion.

TlalocW

[PassingFair]

8. "Ah böwakawa poussé poussé"

[knitter4democracy]

9. I voted for Kyrie Eleison, but I use the Trisagion more along with the Jesus Prayer.

Jesus Prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me a sinner.

Trisagion (shortened version):
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.

"Kyrie Eleison" does mean "Lord have mercy," but I find that the longer versions work better for me. I do like singing it during Lent and Easter services, though, and I miss it, considering we're in a Russian church now and use Old Church Slavonic instead of the Greek.

[kwassa]

10. In whom we live and move and have our being.

and

The peace that passeth all understanding.

[conscious evolution]

11. Om tryambhakam yajamahe

MAHA MRITYUNJAYA MANTRA

Om Tryambhakam Yajamahe

Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam

Urvarukamiva Bandhanan

Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat

It is a Tibetan Buddhist chant.Very powerful.
I highly reccommend it.

[dmallind]

12. I'm more of an Agnus Dei guy

In the sense of sung masses that is. But a decent Kyrie is well worth listening to, it's true. Mozart's Requiem's Kyrie is particularly striking. Bugger all of the sacred to my mind of course, but excellent material in the right hands.

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. "Please" and "Thank you."

Everything else is commentary.

[Evoman]

14. "These are not the droids your looking for."

So deep on so many levels.

[More Than A Feeling]

15. "Make it so, Number One!" n/t

[Evoman]

16. Do, or do not, there is no try!

[YankeyMCC]

18. Om mani padme hum

[elshiva]

20. Silence.

[rug]

21. The Mass is over. Go in peace.

[ZombieHorde]

25. Bwahahahaha!

[HamdenRice]

22. Hail Mary

I did not grow up Catholic, and have no deeply held, early indoctrinated feelings about the "cult of Mary," but for some reason I find "Hail Mary" to be almost hypnotically beautiful and soothing. Maybe it reaches down into some sort of pagan, earth mother worshiping cultural instinct -- the paradoxical idea of "Mother of God" and perhaps most importantly, the meditation that life will indeed end. The prayer is brief, cryptic, mysterious, hypnotic, rhythmic and like all great prayers sounds good even if you didn't know what the words meant.

Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of death.

Amen.

[GliderGuider]

23. Since the only sacred thing is no-thing

The only sacred sound must be silence.

I think Simon and Garfunkel wrote a song about it many years ago.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

24. Ah yes!

Check my sig line.

Peace be with you.

[ZombieHorde]

26. What is the function of a sacred phrase and how does it work?

[Random_Australian]

27. I've always liked La Ilaha Il Allah. Not sure why though.

Just the sound of it, as far as I'm aware. :)

Edit: I don't use the phrase as a mantra or chant, if you wanted to know.