Course III - Teaching 13: Creative Imagination

Man continuously dreams and does not get almost anything. The Son casts his divine dreams.
Exercises of prayer are human techniques to get a divine result.
It is quite suitable to rationalize methods of meditation, but one has to be careful not to rationalize the very prayer.
You must know experience and control the mean. But a methodology of the very prayer cannot be established.
For the Son who lives in the world, the exercise of meditation is greatly important; it is the transcendent act of the day, which gradually transforms his entire life.
Life is not a series of successive acts for a devoted soul. An ever-identical routine makes any succession lack sense, and a permanent ever-equal rhythm gradually transforms life into permanence.
Exercise of meditation, that is just an act, starts losing its apparent value before the vital act of presence, and then prayer cannot be put in the frame of an exercise and expands until becoming vital in the soul and encompasses the whole being. It stops being an act, an expansive act. It escapes its situation in time to stay out of time, being a vital, integral prayer.
Therefore, prayer in itself cannot be rationalized; it is the way of being in the realized soul.
Divine dreams took form through exercises. They became life through routine. They became permanent reality through Renunciation. They became universal through expansion.
None can stop the expansive force of the Spiritual Idea fed by the living renunciation of devoted souls, and here is the force-life that feeds and sustains dreams and hopes of the afflicted Humanity.
Mean ideas and projects of men ever end with their misery, but continuous sacrifice and ideal aspirations of devoted souls ever yield fruits of peace and liberation in the world.