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Frequency in prayer creates a habit
of prayer, which quickly becomes second nature and which frequently brings the
nous and the heart to a higher spiritual state. It is the only way to reach the
height of true and pure prayer. It constitutes the best means of effective preparation
for prayer and the surest road for one to reach the destination of prayer and
salvation.
Each one of us is able to acquire interior prayer—that is, to make it a
means of communication with the Lord. It does not cost anything except the
effort to plunge into silence and into the depths of our heart, and the care to
call upon the name of our sweetest Jesus Christ as often as possible, which
fills one with elation. Plunging into ourselves and examining the world of our
soul give us the opportunity to know what a mystery man is, to feel the delight
of self-knowledge and to shed bitter tears of repentance for our falls and the
weakness of our will.
Selected from the letters and homilies of
Elder Ephraim of Arizona
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