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You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

For what is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ether?
And if it is for your comfort to pour your darkness into space, it is also for your delight to pour forth the dawning of your heart.
And if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing.
When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.
Therefore let your visit to that temple invisible be for naught but ecstasy and sweet communion.
For if you should enter the temple for no other purpose than asking you shall not receive:
And if you should enter into it to humble yourself you shall not be lifted:
Or even if you should enter into it to beg for the good of others you shall not be heard.
It is enough that you enter the temple invisible.

I cannot teach you how to pray in words. God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.
And I cannot teach you the prayer of the seas and the forests and the mountains.
But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,
And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence,
"Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.

It is thy desire in us that desireth.
It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also.
We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us:
Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all."

(Kahlil Gibran)

Passion make the old medicine new:
Passion lops off the bough of weariess
Passion is the elixir that renews:
how can there be weariness
when passion is present?
Oh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue
seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!

(Rumi)

In the beginning was God.
Today is God.
Tomorrow will be God,
Who can make an image of God?
He has no body.
He is the word which comes out of your mouth.
That word! It is no more,
It is the past, and still it lives!
So is God.

(anon.)

As swimmers dare
to lie face to the sky
and water bears them,
as hawks rest upon air
and air sustains them.
so would I learn to attain
freefall, and float
into Creator Spirit's deep embrace,
knowing no effort earns
that all-surrounding grace.

(Denise Levertov)

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.

Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now.

You don't need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so.

(Thich Nhat Hahn)