“As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
He will then see prayer in action.”
If the only prayer you say in your whole life is ‘thank you,’ it would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
“If we could live in unbroken communion with Spirit as an ongoing thread of daily prayer, we would rarely have occasion to ask for specific needs to be met.”[i]
“Prayer or meditation (because if properly practiced they are the same thing) or our ‘mindfulness’ practice must be seamless. Our practice must be infused into life itself so that it ‘becomes’ our life. Not just the focus of our life, not just the intention of our life—but Life itself. We would then be, in a manner of speaking, always on our knees. We would always be in awe of the beauty of Creation, enthralled by the glorious gift of life, and living in a state of enchantment. Amen”[ii]
Insight # 45 comes to us from Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
“Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in action.”[iii]
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Additional Reading:
- Prayer, The ABC’s of Simple Reality, Vol 2
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[i] Barber, Larry W. “Realization in Prayer.” Science of Mind Magazine. January 1992, p. 59.
[ii] Henry, Roy Charles. “Prayer as Blasphemy.” Why Am I Here? October 2014, p. 158.
[iii] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. The Portable Emerson. New York: Viking, 1946, p. 157.
