God is the silent Power behind all things,
always ready to pur int our experience that which we need.
God works for us by working through us as us.
~ TEACHING OF THE MYSTIC by Ruth Lambek
Prayer is that divine seed whose roots draw food from earthly existence. Like the lotus flower that does not bloom in arable ground but in marshes, prayer thrusts its roots into human misery as if into mud. But the lotus flower does not show any trace of the muddy water from which it drew life; turned toward the sky, it blooms.