Poems & Prayers

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From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Greenlights, an inspiring collection of personal poetry and prayers
for finding purpose, hope, and satisfaction in a rapidly changing world, filled
with his one-of-a-kind McConaughey wisdom.

From the Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Greenlights comes an inspiring, faith-filled, and often hilarious
collection of personal poetry and prayers about navigating the rodeo of life
and chasing down the original dream, belief.

My prayers are my poems are my prayers.

I’ve always relied on logic to make sense of myself and the world.

A prescriptionist at heart, I’ve always looked to reason to find the rhyme, the practical to
get to the mystical, the choreography to find the dance, the proof to get to the truth, and
reality to get to the dream.

I’ve been finding that tougher to do lately.

It’s more than hard to know what to believe in;
it’s hard to believe.
But I don’t want to quit believing, and I don’t want to stop believing in . . . humanity, you,
myself, our potential.
I think it’s time for us to flip the script on what’s historically been our means of making
sense, and instead open our aperture to enchantment and look to faith, belief, and
dreams for our reality.

Let’s sing more than we might make sense, believe in more than the world can conclude,
get more impressed with the wow instead of the how, let inspiration interrupt our
appointments, dream our way to reality, serve some soul food to our hungry heads, put
proof on the shelf for a season, and rhyme our way to reason.
Forget logic, certainty, owning, or making a start-up company of it; let’s go beyond what
we can merely imagine, and believe, in the poetry of life.