“Prayer is the surrender of judgment about what should happen, letting Truth run your life. It is rightly understood as a form of meditation. The most common form of prayer consists in asking God for something for yourself, or petitionary prayer. This is not true prayer. Can you really know that you will be better off getting what you want? Can you really know what is best for you or anyone else? Since God’s will is what is happening at any given moment, praying for a specific outcome implies a basic distrust of God’s will. Not trusting God’s will is a barrier to Liberation. If you really knew what was best for you, wouldn’t you have made it by now? Wouldn’t you be truly happy? True prayer implies surrender to God’s will, to Reality.
What else is there?”
-from Ten Paths to Freedom by James Wood
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