1. Prayer is a communication in which soul speaks.
2. Prayer is a yearning for immortality.
3. Prayer allays fear of the unknown and gives strength to sustain pain and crushing blows of fate. Most people do not seek abstract truth, but mainly aspire for the comforts of life; and belief is comforting, if nothing else.
4. lnspite of disappointments consistent with the nature of things in life, persistent prayer renews consolation and unending hope for the desired change.
5. If God were to grant every unreasonable and undeserving prayer, the order of society will collapse and this world will cease to function sanely.
6. Sighs and supplications in prayer release pent up feelings of pain, failure and frustrations to restore equilibrium and energy to brace up and continue suffering deprivations. When prayer therapy utterly fails, some people opt out from their intolerable predicaments by committing suicide.
7. Prayer makes the unbearable bearable by infusing hope or submission in dejection.
8. Prayer is not only the communion in kneeling, but the sound of fan, moving overhead in the summer heat.
9. In prayer or meditation, you begin with a single thought. Then many thoughts crop up. When you empty your mind and concentrate on nothingness, tranquility comes tiptoeing in deep silence.
10. If you pray that everyone should be happy and prosperous and there should be no hardships Im in life, then there will be no justification for creating this world, as it is.
11. It is immaterial how we pray, so long as we pray in the silence of the soul for peace within.
12. The moment you pray, you receive. It is the gift you give to yourself.
13. lf you feel sad that there is no meaning in creation, you are praying for meaning in creation.
14. Meditation is precious even for a few minutes, if you can empty your mind and fill it with silence.
15. Protocol in seating arrangements in prayer is vanity manifest..

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