Our prayers should be fiery words that spring from the furnace of a heart full of love. -MOTHER TERESA -
The revolutionaries of the Spirit discovered how to harness the fire of the heart. Through the glowing heat of meditation and prayer, we too can release the lightning locked in our hearts.
Our meditations in the secret chamber are highly personal experiences. They begin by withdrawing our attention from what is going on around us, and going inward - "all gates closed, the mind within the confines of the heart," as the Bhagavad Gita says. The Christian tradition calls it recollection, withdrawing your mind from external things and focusing your attention on the presence of God within.
When we go inward through devotion and love, we make contact with the inner flame and communicate with the energy that is God. 'The little spirit spark of our personal identity is the key that connects us to the Universal,' Mark Prophet once said. '(God's) Spirit is the material of which our world is made. His energy, His pattern, is the only state of grace. We ourselves must re-identify, integrate and polarize with that light - and we must do so consciously.''
Through prayer and meditation, we bring our attention back to the Inner Light, which is the true source of our existence. We are infused with light - renewed, refreshed and fulfilled - so that we can give more light to those who need it. We build up our reservoir of love. As we communicate within with our Higher Self, who sits on the throne in our hearts, we can also access the wisdom of the heart to find solutions to complicated problems.
The mystics advise us to combine our meditations with the spoken prayer from a heart burning with love. For example, the Zohar teaches, "Whatever a person thinks or whatever he meditates in his heart cannot become reality until he utters it with his lips. The spoken word activates the fruit of our meditation on the Divine, bringing it into the physical.
Every spiritual tradition has its own wonderful methods for entering the heart through prayer and meditation-from the silent recitation of sacred words to the dynamic repetition of mantra΄s and the inspired singing of devotional songs, such as bhajans.
From: Alchemy of the Heart
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