Course XVII - Teaching 13: Life of Prayer

Prayer shall be full when a man has to transform himself into testimony of faith, and to discern continuously obvious truths and possible truths in the teaching. A soul remains always on a state of perfect prayer when the divine truth is centered on it.
For a full spiritual effect of the exercises, discursive meditation must be based on faith.
Sensitive meditation has to be based on constant renunciation as to emotions and cognitive satisfactions, in order to remain in a divine mental-sentimental state that is unknown (something non-visualized).
Perfect prayer is on ignorance of the Divine Essence.
The Son’s life, to be such, has to be life of prayer.
A full prayer is something different from what one commonly imagines. When sometimes you feel plenitude during your prayer, your prayer is not full, but you are doing a sensibly full prayer. A really full prayer is effort, emotion and feeling.
Full prayer is not feeling, but state of life. Life involves your feeling, but feeling is not life. Prayer must be out of the plane of feelings, and located at your own life.
Prayer is not discontinuous just when prayer is one’s life; one’s being is centered only when prayer is our life. Because then prayer is not a thing produced by our lips, or vocalized by our mind, or visualized by our imagination: prayer is continuous self-control and self-centered always in our whole center, not in our ideal center or in our imaginative center. Prayer is to be located continuously as man, as soul, as dynamic power, as static determination, as affective work, as volitive work and as physical work –prayer is to be located at the whole life.
Then, fullness is not an act of prayer: the “being” is fullness. And only through this fullness, you get your necessary power to convey the idea of Renunciation and to perform your mission during your lifetime.
It is not easy to be located at Cafh, because its location is dynamic.
In Cafh, you cannot say, “I am located”, because as soon as you say “I am located”, you are “out of place”. Location is dynamic and demands continuous renunciation, which is your own freedom. So, the Son is free and located at the Cafh’s dynamics, and his location goes beyond.
On the other hand, when the Son understands his limited human work, in the magnetic field where he acts, he goes beyond, his location becomes universal by limiting his purposes and restricting himself to a concrete idea, and he does not expect from his work anything more than what his work is.