Prayer is a technique or art of loving, a method of Being in Love, who is God. If the Prayer is right, everything will be right. Your prayer will reveal to you your condition, as a mirror. If you would learn to pray unceasingly, you must begin by having specific times of prayer.
Prayer is a turning away from the world, visible and invisible.
It is paradoxically quite free of effort. In daily living we incarnate the secret gift of grace spoken within us in silent prayer beyond thought, perception, matter and form. This is the dignity to which prayer calls us. Ladder 274 2. St. Theophan the Recluse, also St. Gregory of Sinai 3.