When We Pray, We Bring G-d Into

Mundus Vult Decipi'—the World Wants To Be Deceived. To Live Without Deception Presupposes Standards Beyond The Reach Of Most People Whose Existence Is Largely Shaped By Compromise, Evasion And Mutual Accommodation. Could They Face Their Weakness, Their Vanity And Selfishness, Without A Mask?

Normal Consciousness Is A State Of Stupor, In Which The Sensibility To The Wholly Real And Responsiveness To The Stimuli Of The Spirit Are Reduced. The Mystics, Knowing That Man Is Involved In A Hidden History Of The Cosmos, Endeavor To Awake From The Drowsiness And Apathy And To Regain The State Of Wakefulness For Their Enchanted Souls.

Then Comes The Insight That All Is God. One Still Realizes That The World Is As It Was, But It Does Not Matter, It Does Not Affect One's Faith.

There Is No Specialized Art Of Prayer. All Of Life Must Be A Training To Pray. We Pray The Way We Live.

It Is Gratefulness Which Makes The Soul Great.