It is upon our willingness to listen and hear God speak that our prayer life from first to last depends.
~ from CREATIVE PRAYER by E. Herman
During prayer a new state comes on. A kind of "largesse," an indescribable vastness, so great as to encompass the whole of creation. This immeasurableness simply flows right through me, no resistance from "self-important demands" blocks the flow, a feeling of absolute weightlessness and transparency. The expression "emptied of self" is a living reality.