In the May 2014 issue of St. Anthony Messenger, Franciscan friar, Richard Rohr, is interviewed about mysticism and prayer in an article entitled: PRAYING LIKE ST. FRANCIS. Here are some excerpts about 'prayer' from the article.
Prayer is something that people of all religious traditions understand as a necessary component of holy living.
You need to find some way to learn or study or to pray sort of on the side of your Sunday worship community. Those people who do tend to go deeper. A Sunday service and believing a certain set of doctrines -- which is what organized religion means for most people -- is not enough.
Praying is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling, and analyzing, but receiving the moment in its wholeness.
Prayer is to give you access to God and to allow you to listen to God, to hear God.
The goal of prayer is divine union -- union with what is, with the moment, with yourself, with the divine -- which mean with everything.
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