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the cynical attitude towards prayer is

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something like asking God for favors and

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then of course the cynical analysis of

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that is that if you ask God for favors

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like he won't help you find your lost

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wallet

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generally speaking you know but that

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isn't if you're if you take a bit of a

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more sophisticated approach to it you

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know what you're doing if you pray is

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that you you formulate a question and

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you you wait for an answer and like a

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prayer might be okay I would like to do

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the best thing I could with my life now

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you have to open yourself up to that

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that's to knock so the door will open I

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would like to do the best thing with my

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life

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what might that be now you could say

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that you're thinking when you say that

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are you or you could say that you're

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leaving yourself open for a revelation

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or an intuition but you're communing

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with whatever it is that enables you to

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receive wisdom and you can attribute all

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of that to you

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or you can interview tit to your brain I

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suppose but you're you're really

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communing with the structure of the

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cosmos when you're when you're asking

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such a question and especially if you do

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it properly and it's really useful to do

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that and it's really necessary because

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it Orient's you properly so yeah the

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demise of prayer when prayer is

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considered in a sophisticated manner

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which is do I commune with the better

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part of myself let's say to determine

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how I should orient myself in the world

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it's a catastrophic loss not to do that

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