The Oversoul Prayer

The Oversoul Prayer is a recitation appealing to the highest expression of each of our individual souls. Written by Karen Kohler in Brooklyn, NY in June of 2018, this prayer-poem was inspired by the American Indian (Lakota) prayer of Chief Yellow Lark, titled "O' Great Spirit" of 1887. Karen drew the name "Oversoul" from an 1841 essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and from the name of an inspirational painting by the artist Alex Grey.

Transcript

Oh great Oversoul,

Whose breath fills my lungs and whose voice I hear in the space between heartbeats,

Hear me.

I am small and delicate.

I appeal to your grandeur and strength.

Open my eyes that I may behold beauty in all the ways that are true.

And clench my fists that I may ready my hands for holding.

Tune my spine that I may move effortlessly with wind,

Creature and water.

Make my lungs supple that they may feed from your fire without burning and feed you in return.

Steady my mind that it may align with the signal you send and receive.

Calm my heart that it may bloom freely into your highest knowing.

Soften my belly that it may harbor the lessons you leave me under every leaf and stone.

Center my seat that it may seal in your everlasting joy of becoming.

Awaken my voice that I will recognize its luster when you sound the call.

I seek strength not to defeat myself but to align with the servant forces with which to lift myself up toward you.

Make me always ready to come to you with clear eyes,

Open hands and a willing heart.

Help me to die each day with the setting sun and to be born each night with a rising moon.

So when at last my light fades,

I may come to you in love and common purpose as you lead me over.

Reviews

Poignant, intriguing intelligent inspiring, sublime. Thank you!

Beautifully inspiring, and uplifting!! Thank you!❤️🙏🏽

Thank you for sharing this with us, Namaste, my friend

So beautiful, powerful, compelling. This induced an all-encompassing visceral reaction within me.
Thank you Karen.

This is a beautiful prayer! Thank you for sharing!

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11/16/23
Powerful prayer! Bookmarked and recommended!Ty!!! 💜💫💫💫💫💫

Love this such a nurturing prayer thank you 😊 🙏 ❤️

Such a grounding prayer. Thank you so much for sharing. Bookmarked!

Great take on the Great Spirit Prayer, well done! 🙏

Wonderful. The pace was perfect and your prayer is expansive and generous.

This prayer is powerful, it’s also very healing for me at this time in my life. Thank you for writing about the inspirations you used to write this prayer. Thank you for sharing it here, as well. 🙏🏼

Beautiful - it really spoke to my heart. Thank you

Appreciation and gratitude 🙏for this beautiful prayer .
Vielen lieben dank.
Ihre Stimme und Betonung ist wunderbar und ♥️ füllend.

How lovely! 🌷a magical prayer to quietly, graciously connect💫 namaste 🙏

Nicely done thanks for sharing.

Wonderful prayer. 🙏🏼

Beautiful inspiring and humbling

Perfect. Thank You.

A beautiful invocation, one which cries out for enactment and fulfillment in and through our lives. May it be so.