Sunday, August 27, 2023

The function of prayer

We do not step out of the world when we pray;
we merely see the world in a different setting.
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel.
It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living
from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Man's Quest For God: Studies In Prayer And Symbolism 

 

 

 

 

 


 
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