Inner Prayer

Possessions, worth and pleasure characterize the thinking and acting of today's people. Since such an orientation is contrary to spiritual life, many people believe that he who lives in this world has no access to spiritual life.

The bustle of the world fascinates and captivates indeed many people. The man of the world is indeed bound with what attracts his thinking and striving; this is so today, as it was at all times. However, the regeneration of man from within, by recalling the powers latent in him, is possible today, as it was at all times.

In order to find the stillness within ourselves, we have not to withdraw from our daily life, from our profession, from society. We just have to recognize what is important: To be IN this world BUT NOT WITH this world. The main point is which powers we allow to govern us, to dominate us and our life. When we are oriented towards the world, towards the material aspects, then the world, all the external aspects, will influence us. 

When we turn towards the spiritual, the outer world with its manifestations loses its influence. Though it is still there, it cannot exert influence on us anymore, since we have offered our hand to God in us. This now consciously nourishes us, guides us and governs us. We may now rest in Him.

The connection between the material and the spiritual levels of existence is established through devotion. When we turn to the powers of eternal life, an uninterrupted stream of power flows, because God, our Father, never shuts to us His fount of original power. Prayer is devotion. He who prays correctly every day from his heart will maintain inner peace even in the greatest turmoil.

The day when the person realizes who he truly is and finds his way to himself is of decisive importance for his life, that life which does not end with the termination of his earthly journey. It is the day of turning consciously towards the eternal spiritual life. The person realizes that the calm, the contentment, the powers of the infinite fullness - which he is allowed to open up through the all-encompassing divine love - are effective in his inner being.  

The right prayer leads us home to our origin, into to the kingdom of eternal light, where happiness, peace, harmony and bliss are waiting for us. Prayer is the bridging into reality of the Spirit, into the life which makes us free. Thus, immeasurable power lies in prayer, as this connects us with the power source of life, with the omnipotence of infinity, with God, our Father.

God is love. In prayer we are increasingly grasped by the eternal power-stream of divine love, which is able to raise us to the loving consciousness of spiritual life, up to the heart of our eternal Father. However, we should first learn to pray in the right way. It is not the lip-prayers that lead us to the promised land of inner life. Words spoken without feeling do not open the sluices of the inner being, the sluices that make the stream of eternal love flow. The main thing is not the wording or the length of the prayer or any other external aspects. It is not in the word, in the letter, in the sound alone that the power lies.

The right prayer develops from within. It streams from the soul and the heart. By praying in the right way, the child addresses his Father in his inner being, that is, he speaks within to his God, until the sluices open up, through which the soul and heart then pray. 

If we sent out love and were thus imbued with divine love, we would receive only love. But when we are concerned with what we dislike about our neighbour, with what he thinks and acts or with the way he is dressed, we can deduce that similar things are in us. For if we were imbued with the love of God, we would radiate just selflessness and love. But as long as envy, hatred and egocentricity are still in us, we will radiate also what is still in us. We mostly project our faults upon our fellow man, thinking that it is our neighbour, our colleague, our fellow man who has this or that evil. But we actually are what we want to attribute to our neighbour.

(Please read also the article "The Law of Correspondence")

If it is possible for us to arrange to have a quiet room where we just pray and meditate, where we can have a dialogue with the divine, then this place becomes a temple of divine harmony. Walking through a quiet pine forest can also give us a blessing stillness to advance deeper into the realm of eternal peace. Nature gives so much power and love to the conscious walker; it serves the person who longs for God, for His stillness and His peace and gives him powers upon powers.

When we observe nature with our outer senses only, it reveals to us its outer appearance only: The grass, the flowers and the taller plants appear to be silent. Only the singing of the birds is an indication to us that there is life on the trees. In reality, every blade of grass, every leaf, every needle of a fir tree sings the song of the inner power.  

The right silence means to let go of our thoughts about outer things and people, such as thoughts about our possessions, our meeting with our boss or with colleagues not so pleasant to us.

How do we come to the right prayer, to the perpetual thought of God, to the stillness into which God, who Himself is the stillness, speaks? We collect our thoughts again and again and then give them over to God, in order to become still. In this process of collecting our thoughts and giving over what is human in us, we practise the right concentration. In order to find our way to true, deep prayer, there is no need for the usual practices and ceremonies of prayer. We need not clasp our hands or put them together or even kneel down.  

We need not keep to special times for prayer, for God is omnipresent always and everywhere. He is constantly ready to accept the language of the soul and of the heart from His children.  

The right prayer is the continuous nearness to God in sensations and thoughts. This is deep prayer, which is not spoken but felt, that is, we feel God within us, around us and in all the Being. If we want to learn praying in the right way, much practice is necessary at first, in order to become still.  

At the beginning of the right prayer, we still need a support and, as an aid, a mental image to which we direct and send our prayer. Thus, we imagine the altar of God in our chest, near the fourth chakra (consciousness centre.) On this inner altar of love and mercy, we place our prayers of thankfulness and request, the streams of the conscious mind and of the subconscious. 

The prayers which we still say from our mind circle mostly around our own interest.  Only when, in our prayer, we find our way deeper do we become aware that the whole fullness of infinity is within us and wants to become effective in us.