"... humility must be the foundation of all our prayer... We do not
pray from a standpoint of strength but of weakness. If we rely only on
our own natural resources we cannot pray at all... Prayer... is first
and foremost this act of surrender to the Holy Spirit, without whom
nothing can happen at all. This is humility in prayer, whereby we
recognize that God is everything and we are nothing... We only really
begin to love God genuinely when we realized our total dependence upon
him, his compassion and his mercy. As we sink deeply into our own
darkness and nothingness we find, mysteriously, that a light shines
forth out of the heart of it. There can be no light, however, without a
previous darkness, which is entered through humility."
(The Path of Life, p. 171-2)
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