The So, Good morning. God morning to you. God is shining on you.

Look up and close that body's eyes and bask.

And Ephesians, it says everything exposed to the light itself becomes light. In prayer

we merely keep returning this divine gaze.

This divine attention, and we become its reflection.

Almost in spite of ourselves,

the word prayer has often been trivialized by making it into a way of getting what we want, but I use prayer as the umbrella word for any interior journeys or practices that allow us to experience faith, hope, and love within ourselves.

It's not a technique for getting things, a pious exercise that somehow makes God happy or a requirement for entry into heaven.

It's much more like practicing heaven now. That's from naked now learning to

see as the mystic's see and the radiant sutras. It says to live for a few days in the

meditation in this affirmation I am immersed in the flame. A flame of time, the flame of love, the flame of life, the

universal fire flows through me. And you step into that fire wholeheartedly, starting with the big toe and surrendering everywhere.

Only the not self, which doesn't exist anyway, burns away.

You attend to this continually and awaken into tranquility.

Your essence is renewed in the flame, for it is flame and knows itself as flame.

Since the first heartbeat of creation,

Imagine the entire world consumed by flame.

You stay steady, do not waver as fire transmutes form into light. The soul

reveals itself to itself as radiance. I was sitting at the beach yesterday practicing this meditation, not seeing fire everywhere, but

filling love everywhere as if everything was on fire with this love.

This intensity I feel here, filling it everywhere.

Knowing that the intensity is appearing as

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