When you pray,try to stay beneath your thoughts, neither fighting them nor thinking them. Everything that comes also goes, so don't take any of it too seriously. Hold yourself at a more profound level, perhaps in your chest, solar plexus, or deep breath, but stay in your body-self somehow. Do not rise to the mind, because the mind is endlessly repetitive commentary. Just rest in what I call your animal contentment. You will feel exactly like nothing, like emptiness. Stay crouched there, at the cellular level, without shame or fear, long enough for the Deeper Source to reveal itself. Universal love flows through you from that Deeper Source as a vital energy much more than an idea.
Because most people still think of God as an object separate from themselves, they naturally try to please God or inform God or even use God. You cannot "think" God. God is never an object, like any other object of consciousness. In fact, God refuses to be objectified, which is why there are so many atheists and agnostics, who basically try too hard.
God is always and forever the subject, knowing in you, through you, with you, and, yes, as you!
You can only know God subject to subject and center to center, and the initiative is always from God's side. There is no other why to know God or to be known by God!
~ Richard Rohr
from just this : prompts and practices for contemplation
art by Noha Nayel
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