I pray, I meditate
I pray to God and meditate on God.I pray to God because God is my Lord, my Sovereign Lord, my Lord Supreme.
I meditate on God because God is my Friend, my eternal Friend, my only Friend.
I pray to God because He is powerful and thoughtful.
I meditate on God because He is beautiful and fruitful.
I pray to God to see His Face of Height.
I meditate on God to feel His Heart of Delight.
I pray to God to grant me what He is.
I meditate on God to regain what I have lost.
I pray to God to show me the way.
I meditate on God to transform my life of ignorance-night into a life of wisdom-light.
I pray to God to become the sound-sky in my human life.
I meditate on God to become the silence-sun in my divine life.
In my desire-life I pray to God because I am my necessity’s slave.
In my aspiration-life I meditate on God because God and I have become our necessity’s mutual satisfaction.
My prayer breathlessly loves God’s Compassion-Power.
My meditation unconditionally loves God’s Justice-Light.
Salvation-gift I have received from my prayer.
Perfection-gift I have received from my meditation.
I pray to God and meditate on God.
EA 1. 1 July 1977, 9:30 p.m. — Woodrow Wilson Hall, Monmouth College, Asbury Park, New Jersey.↩