“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
