Quotes about Prayers

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ctulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

For those who have chosen the path of love, all obstacles are already removed.

Spiritual life is not doing the sadhana alone and coming to satsang alone. It is an everyday challenge to do the highest good in the name of God, not in the name of anybody else. This is the shift in consciousness that will take you to God. When you serve him continually in perfection, you yourself become perfect.

The mark of the true meditator, the mark of the true sadhak, is love. I don't have to see or know how much sadhana you do in your life; I just have to spend a moment with you to sense if the perfume of love is with you.

Satsang is the greatest of all spiritual practices. Always be in the company of the realized teacher, the Master. Always be where the truth is being spoken and where the holy books are being read. The wisdom is being shared in these places. You'll see that some topic of wisdom will be important for you that day. It will help you on your spiritual path. Because of hearing these truths, your mind will open to a whole other level of consciousness.

We, ignorant of ourselves, beg often our own harms, which the wise powers deny us for our good; so find we profit by losing of our prayers.

Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one’s life.  Prayers also provide regular exercise – like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day – and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life.  Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi  (the spiritual and the worldly).  They can’t abandon one for the other; that’s the essence of their faith.