He who can say in his heart, “I and my Father are one,” and feel the ecstasy of that unity, is continually IN PRAYER, even as he is continually IN LIFE and continually breathing. His prayer is like unto his inward-outward breath which is forever with him, forever vitalizing him. Every life should be a continuous Mind-communion with God.
He who knows the Light of love in him does not beseech the Father-Mother of the universe for his next breath, nor for his next heartbeat, for he fully knows that his heartbeat is one with the universal pulse, and that for which he would needlessly ask is already his.
Therefore, we say to you when you ask of us, “How shall I pray and when?”, we say to you, “As you live and breathe continually, and as you are in life and love continually, so shall you be in prayer continuously.” And as the air you breathe surrounds you abundantly, awaiting your need of it, so is that which you would ask for awaiting you in abundant supply; yea, even to overflowing fullness.
And as there is not a time when God does not center you, nor an interval in which He does not control your balanced heartbeat to synchronize with His, so is there not a time when you should pray to Him and another time when you should not.
And, likewise, as there is not a time when the air you breathe is denied you while you manifest your Father-Mother on this earth, so, likewise, there shall never come a time when that which you need to manifest Him worthily shall be denied you for, we again say, you already have that for which you ask, even as you have love and life for which you have not asked.
If there are times when you would like to put words to your desires to give them form, let not your words be from your lips, nor give voice to them. You cannot deceive God with empty words as you deceive man. Say in your heart when sorely perplexed, “Be Thou Thee in me, my Father,” and know Him as your very Self.
Your problem may be great and your wisdom may be in doubt to your Self. If then you would say, “Father, stand by–I deeply need You”, it might mean more in assurance to you–but to your Father it weighs not one whit more than saying it in your heart–so pray to Him that way if it comforts YOU to commune thus. If sleep will not come to you for heaviness regarding your dealings with business or a friend, write your questioning upon your heart with desire that love shall guide you, then sleep in peace and know that the answer will be written in balanced rhythms where the question has been erased. Then let not the morrow pass without extending love to your friend.
And if your handiwork goes not to your liking, having too much of your earth-self in it–sensing instead of knowing–liking and not loving–diverted by sounds of earth from hearing the silences of heaven which borns them on earth–then, we say, open wide the doors of your Soul and let God in to work with you. Rejoice then in your renewed ecstasy as you again think your work knowingly with God, creating with His hands and yours as one.
If a friend approaches you with a grievance, send love to open the door for him to you, and say within your heart, “Father, let my words be Your words to him, not mine alone.” Then weigh his grievance on the scales of love and not let him depart unillumined by the Light. Void his grievance with your love. In so doing, a great happiness will descend upon you.
If you find your business slowly ebbing because you have, perchance, founded it afar from where you should have founded it, and you grieve because you have not the means to transfer it to that far State where you now know it would thrive, we say to you, do not grieve but rejoice that God has illumined you with the Light of knowing what to do to balance your unbalanced beginning. In your rejoicing is your power to take the first step of that far journey which will be followed by another, and still another one–even as one breath forever follows another–until that far State is beneath your feet in answer to your prayer.
Know, however, that all the prayers in all the world would have been as soft blown winds on desert sands had you not regiven to your Father even as He has given to you by working with Him, step by step and breath by breath, to balance that given to you by Him to manifest you on earth with that which you give to manifest Him in heaven.
He who would become a music master and grieves because he has not the means to meet the years ahead to so become already has the means to play his first note. And when that first note is played, he has the means to play the second one. Therefore, we say, he who takes his first gift from God and regives to Him will find that first gift to be a trickling stream, a running brook or a mighty cataract of power ever ready to be given in the measure of any man’s ability to regive equally.
Again we say, God will work WITH you but not FOR you. No one ever became a concert pianist by prayer without action, for that is wishful thinking, and by faith- and-belief without knowledge manifested.
If you are low in spirits because of some fancied hurt, or have been too much alone and would balance your Self-awareness with God-awareness, let your prayer be a desire for realization of your high place in God’s universe. Say within your pulsebeat, wordlessly–for God has such good hearing that you need not speak it:
I, My Father, am not alone “I”. You, my Father, are “I’. You are in me and I am in you. I am favored of You, my Creator. I AM of the inner Mind. I KNOW your joy and I am exalted in You.
I have all knowledge and all power. That which I desire to know, or to have, or to give is mine to know, to have, or to give. My dwelling place is in Your high heavens. Be in me that I may be You–knowingly.
I AM in Your Light, O my Father. Enfold me ever in Your Light that I may not again feel the heaviness of the dark upon my heart. Dissolve my separateness and make me ONE with You that I, too, can ever be in the giving.
Dharma, we will end this chapter with the following discussion of misconception of prayer and then we will close this segment.
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