His prayer is the action of self-awareness and of looking at himself in truth. His prayer is his sincere intent to face what may be most unpleasant. It is prayer because it contains the attitude that truth for the sake of truth is the threshold to love. Without truth and without love, there can be no God experience. Love cannot grow out of trying to pretend a truth that is not felt. But love can grow out of facing a truth, no matter how imperfect it is. This attitude is prayer. Candor with oneself is prayer; alertness to one's resistance is prayer; owning up to something that one has hidden from in shame is prayer.
Pathwork Guide Lecture No. 105 An Unedited Lecture June 8, 1962 MAN'S RELATIONSHIP TO GOD IN VARIOUS STAGES OF HIS DEVELOPMENT CYCLE
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