Prayer

"Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like a remote that comes with a television set.  Prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way.   It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another attachment.  It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way."   Rachel Naomi Remen