Your gaze is full of love, mine is a prayer to you who created your own self.
*Guru Nanak. Poems from the Sikh Sacred Tradition.
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We are destined not merely to pray as something we do, but to become and be prayer as something we are.
Then, we pray from being prayer, rather than only doing prayer or offering prayers.
One could say,
"Prayer prays" or
"God prays with God" or
"God is the unceasing prayer" - and we enter into it at some time and place.
If you pray, truly pray, and not just pray words, you will be led into a space, sooner or later, where you are no longer praying as a something or a someone:
You will come to discover Spirit's greatest secret is you yourself, so Spirit itself.
And, prayer becomes the turning of the whole self towards this hiddenness and silence where solitude joins with solitude.
Here, you are neither trying to be holy or not holy, right or wrong, good or bad - you are and prayer is.
Prayer, then, is a means to shape you into prayer, not a kind of prayer, simply prayer.
This is the freedom of Prayer in Spirit, prayer that leads from words into silence and, then, from silence back into words, and the freedom of the one who truly prays from the Heart - not their heart, the Heart.
