Nicetas Stethatus With true prayer comes love and with love comes true prayer. Prayer is, after all, the contemplation of life from the highest point of view - that of the person immersed in the love of God. If it were a question of God's eqo, all the flattery that usually proceeds the request would certainly produce the shallow, but desired results of the petitioner's request.
Prayer is abolutely ego-less.
It is the moment when God forgets he's God and man forgets he's man. The two meet as one, a dance in which each may think the other is leading. The quote, however, talks about the results of prayer. And here, too, we can see that it is not question of ego, of something attained by a person's efforts, but rather by grace, and when the ego is forgotten, so is judgement. After all, the ego allows us foolishly to condemn others in God's name for the purpose of strengthening our own self-pride and sense of worth.