Prayer is turning the mind and thoughts toward God. To pray means to stand before God with the mind, mentally to gaze unswervingly at Him, to converse with Him in reverent fear and hope…. The principal thing is to stand with the mind in the heart before God and to go on standing before Him unceasingly day and night, until the end of life…. Behave as you wish, so long as you learn to stand before God with the mind in the heart, for in this lies the essence of the matter.
