Chapter 24 pray

Then a priestess said, please tell us about prayer. He replied: You pray in times of pain or need; I hope you will also pray in days of joyful contentment and abundance. For isn't your prayer an extension of your ego into the space of life? If pouring your darkness into space is for your relief, then pouring your dawn into space is for your delight. If all you can do is cry when your spirit calls you, she will whip you on and on in your weeping until you laugh. In prayer you will ascend to the skies and see those who are praying with you, and those you will never see except in prayer.

So let your visits to the invisible temple be pure joy and sweet communion. For if you visit the temple only to seek, you will not be received; If you come to demean yourselves, you will not be exalted; Even if you enter the temple to bless others, you will not be heard. It is enough for you to enter the Temple incognito. I cannot teach you to pray with words. God does not hear your words unless He Himself directs them from your lips. Nor can I teach you the prayers of seas and forests and mountains. But you who were born of the sea, of the forest, of the mountains, may find their prayers in your hearts.

If you listen in the silence of night, you will hear them say in silence: "Our God, which is our winged self, is your will that works in us. "It is your wish that expresses the wish within us. "It is your impulse within us to turn our, really your night, into our, really your day. "We cannot ask anything from you, because you have seen the need long before it was formed in us. "You are what we need; when you give us more of yourself, you give us all."