For most people, if you look at what their prayer is, it is: “God give me this, give me that, God save me." Prayer means you’re telling God what to do. You think you’re God’s consultant!

It is time we realized that looking to God will not help until we look at our own foolishness.

Now you don’t go stand in front of that which is the basis of creation, and throw your ideas at him. You are his idea. Yes? You are just a figment of his idea. If he withdraws his idea, you’re gone. So you don’t put your ideas. So this is the essence of meditativeness. Prayer means you’re telling God what to do. You think you’re God’s consultant! Meditation means you’ve understood your limitations, now you just shut up. If you just shut up, just shut up on all levels, everything that needs to happen to you will happen to you. All the training is just to help them to shut up. That you don’t throw your silly ideas at the creator. You just shut up.

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