The Eyes of the Dragon, Stephen King

We search for God with all our heart when we pray without ceasing. We pray without ceasing when we look for the good in all we encounter and try to draw it forth.

To pray without ceasing does not mean that we constantly think about God or that we keep the word, “God! God!” on our lips.

We pray without ceasing when we habitually meet whatever comes to us with faith and with love, with a mind to draw from the event all that it has to give, with a willingness to do whatever has to be done to make the most and the best of it.

We pray without ceasing when we refer the events of life to God.

We do this not so much by having times to pray – though we need these – as by acting all the time, as much as we are able, with courage, faith, love, power, and intelligence. We do this not so much by speaking words as by our inward attitude.

To pray without ceasing is to keep our heart attuned to what God means in life.

God is. Infinite, perfect, absolute. Beyond all that we can say of God.

But in the life of human beings, God is those human qualities which are most Godlike.

God is faith… courage… love… intelligence… energy… order.

Faith may be falling on our knees, but it is more likely to be standing firm or walking on. It may be waiting. It may be working. It may be daring to step out on uneasy waters. It may be just doing to step out.

Courage may be making courageous affirmations about life, but it is more likely to be going forward when we would rather have gone back. Courage may be standing still when we would rather have run away. Courage may be running away when we would rather have stood firm.

Love may be throwing ourselves at the feet of the Lord devotedly, but love may also be giving a gift we would rather have kept for ourselves. Love may be speaking a longed-for word. Love may be withholding a word we should not speak. Love may be binding up wounds, sometimes wounds we cause. Love may be setting someone free – sometimes someone we would like to bind us. Love may be putting another’s good ahead of our own. Love may be feeling how others feel. Love may be living with others and living for others.

Intelligence may be thinking about God. But intelligence may just be thinking clearly. Intelligence may be quiet listening. Intelligence may be original insight. Intelligence may be seeing through facts to the truth.

Laughter may be prayer. So may tears.

To shoulder a heavy load with a light heart is to meet things with God. To be deeply moved by the need of another human being, by noble action, by beauty, or truth – this is to be aware of God.

Standing still may be a prayer. So, too, may action.

One of the highest forms of prayer is work. Give yourself to a creative purpose. Let your mind and hands be absorbed in bringing forth some good thing – a field of wheat, or a poem, or a machine – and you draw very close to God.

God is the creative spirit. When you give yourself to the working of that Spirit, you are one with God.

To pray without ceasing is to put God in charge of your life. It is to look for direction. It is to expect inspiration.

It is to feel that you are serving the ends and purposes of life more than your own ends, and to make your own ends – as much as you can – life’s ends.

It is, in a sense, to have one prayer always in your mind:
“Here am I, God – Life, Love, Humankind – use me.”

(From THE UNITY BOOK, PRAYER: THE MASTER KEY)

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, The Wheel of Life

“The ‘Flower of Life’ can be found in all major religions of the world. It contains the patterns of creation as they emerged from the “Great Void”. Everything is made from the Creator’s thought. After the creation of the Seed of Life the same vortex’s motion was continued, creating the next structure known as the Egg of Life.
This structure forms the basis for music, as the distances between the spheres is identical to the distances between the tones and the half tones in music. It is also identical to the cellular structure of the third embryonic division (The first cell divides into two cells, then to four cells then to eight). Thus this same structure as it is further developed, creates the human body and all of the energy systems including the ones used to create the Merkaba. If we continue creating more and more spheres we will end up with the structure called the Flower of Life.

The Flower of Life and the Seed of Life

The flower of life holds a secret symbol created by drawing 13 circles out of the Flower of Life. By doing this, one can discover the most important and sacred pattern in the universe. This is the source of all that exists; it\’s called the Fruit of Life. It contains 13 informational systems. Each one explains another aspect of reality. Thus these systems are able to give us access to everything ranging from the human body to the galaxies. In the first system, for example, it\’s possible to create any molecular structure and any living cellular structure that exists in the universe. In short every living creature.”

In the state of consciousness of the individual is to be found the explanation of the phenomena of life. If man’s concept of himself were different, everything in his world would be different. His concept of himself being what is it, everything in this world must be as it is.

The ideas which impel you to action are those which dominate the consciousness, those which possess the attention. To the unenlightened this will seem to be all fantasy, yet progress comes from those who do not take accepted views nor accept the world as it is. When we set out to master the movement of attention, which must be done if we would successfully alter the course of observed events, it is then we realize how little control we exercise over the mind and how much it is dominated by sensory impressions and by being set adrift on tides of other men\’s considerations and environmental moods.

A tense person is wrapped up in himself, his immediate family, the events of his past, the prospects of his future, or how he is regarded by other people. What does this tension do? It grips. It causes a stranglehold on the channels within him. It cuts off thinking. It is useless for such a person to relax physically as long as he continues to center the mind upon himself. The stranglehold will be there every minute, day and night. When we learn to love others as ourselves, the attention will be focused outwardly, and therefore we will become relaxed. There will be no stranglehold within and the mind will become free.

God gave us dominion through consciousness, and this consciousness, which is the creative principle of our body, must also be its sustaining and maintaining principle.

…The whole secret lies in the word ‘heart’ or what we call consciousness. An intellectual knowledge of the fact that God is all is of no value. The only value any truth has is in the degree of its realization.

…Act, rather, that we might give mastership qualities which are already within us. As we unfold constantly to give, we are not unfolding to have our senses acted upon. We are unfolding to give all that we and our senses are capable of giving. Then shall our lives be transformed.

Spirituality is not attained by denying the world, not by affirming the spiritual world. Spirituality is, because there has never been a time in the world, in the true world, where God, or spirituality, was not.

…If one prays for an object, or a desire, verily, it shall come unto him because his mind shall create what he desires. But the true consciousness should never be blinded by that which the intellect devises…

It is possible for anyone to change the trend of his life, not by hearing or reading truth, but by making it an active part of his consciousness in daily experience, until it becomes a habit every moment of the day, instead of an occasional thought. Let God operate in the consciousness morning, noon, and night, until gradually the actual awareness comes. Then we make the transition from being hearers of the word to being doers of the word. Then we shall gather in the harvest of souls. (70)

…The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more will he grant others their own freedom and give less interference to another\’s state of consciousness. As we mount the scale upward, the more ethical we become in our conduct. We will not make any attempt to discuss or assist in anyone\’s problem unless asked to do so, for according to spiritual law, the individual consciousness of a person is his home. A spiritual traveler cannot enter unless invited. (83)

…Many spiritual masters will act in the same manner, in never replying directly to our questions. They want us to learn how to get the answers ourselves. (102)

A man wants great powers to destroy his enemies.
“For what reason?” asked the greak ECK master.
“So that I can be free of them,” came the reply.
Rebazar Tarzs said, “My dear friend, if you destroy your enemies with such powers, it is quite certain that you would destroy yourself. So I say unto you love them, and they in turn will love you.”
The man studied this for a while.
“But then they wouldn’t be my enemies.” (106)

Concentrated attention is the key that unlocks all stores of wisdom, of truth & spirituality.

Every spiritual traveler keeps a vigilant eye upon his mental processes. When he begins to enter into the inner worlds, even to the slightest degree he must beware of his own misleading mental creations. In all of his waking consciousness he is to remember that his mind is his worst enemy, as well as his most useful instrument. But the main point is that he must keep it under control every moment.

Man must attain this state of being which is like the sun,
shining upon all alike,
yet asking nothing in return.


It is with complete Vairag [mental detachment] that one enters into the world of the Sugmad.
The tuza [soul] lives forever by giving, not by receiving. (116)

Man is a god clothed in rags. He is a master of the universe going about begging a crust of bread. He is a kind prostrated before his own servants, a prisoner walled in by his own ignorance. He could be free. He has only to walk out of his self-constructed prison, for none holds him but himself. (129)

Without imagination man remains a creature of the earth dust, a materialistic thing. Man either goes forward in him imagination or remains a prisoner of his senses (130).