Kirkegaard talked about the purpose of prayer being not to affect the will of the almighty on the external world, but to rather affect the one who prays, internally. this was a really good revelation for me at the time of reading this and I am remembering it today. I think the idea holds weight even when removed from a religious framework. It also falls into an interesting loose grouping of ideas that start out as prescriptions, but reveal themselves in fact to be inevitable descriptions. Those kinds of ideas I find to be the most true.
Itโs true that our desires, expressed internally or externally, intentionally or unintentionally, do reflect back on to our internal selves to create a feedback loop of the will that affects our subconscious and conscious perception of the world around us. Today I am praying for the correct posture towards the Real. The only prayer I know is, โmay it be so.โ
