Total Thoughts - May 25, 2009 - The Power of Prayer

• Prayer is the liberation of the mind. Prayer focuses the mind into enabling it to draw upon the equanimity of the universe.
• The irony is that prayer allows us a glimpse into our true state, our natural state, but we instead resort to prayer as an escape.
• Temples are a place of peaceful energy and collective synergy that allows the seeker to benefit from the offerings of those before and around them.
• To a realized master, all their actions are an offering, a prayer, to the world. Likewise, our every action should also be a prayer.
• Real prayer is only possible by being present in the action. We must perform the action without desire and as an offering to God.
• The difference between meditation and prayer is similar to the difference between existence and awareness. In meditation we are existent; in prayer we are aware of our existence.
• "That is whole; this is Whole; from the Whole, the whole becomes manifest. From the Whole, when the whole is negated, what remains is again the Whole." – Our closing prayer