Pray With All Sails Unfurled

Prayer is the activity which is appropriate to the dignity of the spirit. When you are praying, do not fancy that divinity is like some image formed within yourself. Avoid allowing your mind to be impressed with the seal of some particular shape. Draw near the immaterial being and you will attain to understanding. Stand guard over your mind, keeping it free of concepts at the time of prayer so that it will remain in its own deep calm. A man in chains cannot run nor can the mind that is enslaved to passion see the place of spiritual prayer.