Prayer is a burning desert where the steel of love is tempered in white hot furnaces. Prayer is a searing by the truth, but also a delighting in the truth. Prayer is joy. Prayer is anguish, agony, dying. . Prayer is a paradox.
Prayer is a stillness.
Prayer is a peace. Prayer is a rhythm of quiet breathing, and beat of hear. Prayer is a consecration, commitment, oblation. Prayer is nothingness filled with the All. Prayer is the smashing of jars and spilling of nard.