To the dull mind nature is leaden. To the illumined mind
the whole world burns and sparkles with light.
~ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
In prayer we are neither on the one hand dialoguing with an outside source who utters messages from without, nor are we simply talking to ourselves. We are reaching deeply into ourselves and sensing more clearly that we are in God's knowledge and love. We are discovering the Divine within us. We are experiencing ourselves and our lives as uttered by God, and we listen.