The Silence That Prays for You

Dear Friend, esteemed Reader,

This week, I want to share something that has been quietly growing inside me, a deeper sense of what true prayer really is.

We often imagine prayer as a reaching-out, an effort to connect with something vast and sacred beyond ourselves. But the more softly we listen, the more we begin to sense a quiet truth: there was never any distance to cross.

We try to speak to The Great Spirit, to send our longing upward, hoping it will be received. Yet what if every word, every ache, every whisper already rises from the very source we think we are praying to? What if prayer is not a journey toward, but a stillness within?

"The moment you stop seeking the sacred, you discover it is already the core of your being."

In the early stages of the inner path, we pray as we've been taught, through words, through hopes, through a feeling that something immense listens from afar. There is innocence in that. It is the first language of devotion.

And as understanding refines, prayer becomes quieter. The voice softens. The asking dissolves. Until, slowly, silence itself becomes the highest prayer. Silence is not the absence of devotion, it is its purest expression.

For how can you move toward The One Mind when you are already within it?

How can you seek The Great Spirit when it is the very awareness breathing you?

At first, prayer feels like a path you walk. Later, it becomes a returning. And finally, it disappears; not because devotion has ended, but because the sense of separation has.

You realize there is no "two", no seeker and no destination. 

There is only the vast stillness of The One Mind, the intimate presence of The Great Spirit, shimmering quietly at the center of your being.

"Closer than your own breath is the source from which you arise."

Sit quietly for a moment.

Let the thoughts settle like dust in a beam of sunlight.

Feel the stillness that remains when everything else falls away.
In that silence, prayer begins to pray itself.

Not as a movement outward, but as a blossoming from within.

With love and quiet presence,

Bear Saorin

The One Mind Sanctum

Until next time, may the silence of The Great Spirit gently guide you home.