Prayer

People may abandon prayer because they envision a perfect prayer, a brightly radiant prayer. Even though this abandonment is a great loss, when that bright prayer does arrive, it restores the entire loss. This is so in regard to an individual or the community: the entire congregation of Israel. Prayer will come to the people of Israel. It will come in a very bright form, a form that flows from the midst of the entirety of its soul, from the midst of its inner awareness, from the midst of its view of the world, and from the midst of all its influence upon the world in the past, present and future.

Orot Hakodesh III, p. 227

The constant prayer of our soul is always striving to emerge from concealment to revelation, to spread through all the life-powers of our entire spirit and all the life-powers of our entire body. This constant prayer is also yearning to reveal its nature and the might of its action to all of its surroundings, to the entire world and to life. To attain such a level, we must engage in a self-inquiry that results from our study of Torah and wisdom. And so the service of learning all of Torah and all of its wisdom is in itself the constant revelation of the hidden prayer of our soul.

Olat Ra'ayah