| BkI:4.I.3 | True prayer is divine union. True prayer comes only from a state of unity, and hence from love. It is a dialogue between you and your God, between you and your self. It is the direct relationship between you and everything you really are—a union with all your feelings, thoughts, beliefs, ideas, memories, desires, and more. In that loving union, in which you embrace all that you are, and thus embrace all that your sisters and brothers are in truth, you remain in constant prayer. Prayer does not imply words, thoughts, or effort of any kind, even though it may include them. Such union encompasses the desire to remain in unity. |