"Prayer is, as it were, being alone with
God. A soul prays only when it is turned toward God, and for so long as it
remains so. As soon as it turns away, it stops praying. The preparation for
prayer is thus the movement of turning to God and away from all that is not
God. That is why we are so right when we define prayer as this movement. Prayer
is essentially a 'raising up', an elevation. We begin to pray when we detach
ourselves from created objects and raise ourselves up to the Creator."
— Dom Augustin Guillerand, The Prayer of the Presence
of God, p. 91
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