The Plotinus Prayer

This centering prayer, written by Egyptian-born philosopher Plotinus in the 3rd century, is a great way to start your day.  As you will experience, these enlightened words and images will center and ground you, body and soul, in eternal time and space.

Use your imagination during this meditation. Visualize. Imagine the earth’s green energy rising up from the ground, up through the spine, radiating from the top of your head. Imagine sunlight and moonlight shining down from the heavens and permeating your body… This powerful meditation connects our inner core to the stars and universe itself.

Additionally, I perceive the Cross in this meditation. It aligns my body on its ‘axes’ – vertically through my body, and horizontally across my arms, before me and behind me like St. Patrick’s Lorica. Enjoy its benefits each morning!

From beneath me rises the energy of the Earth

My home and my foundation

From above shines down the power of the light

of the Sun and of the enchanting Moon

To my right hand flows the strength

to control and direct the powers of energy

To my left hand comes the skill

to divine and to heal, for that is the source of blessing

Before me rises my higher self

The perfected one I strive to become

Behind me falls the one I was

And all discarded failures

Around me circle the eternal stars

Lamps of wisdom in the deeps of space

Within me grows the flame of life

The light of experience and understanding.