For as a wet match cannot be ignited, so as many saturated with doubt and restlessness is unable to produce the fire of concentration, even when extraordinary efforts are made to strike the cosmic spark.

Select a demand from the contents according to your need. Sitting motionless on a straight chair, with spine erect, calm your mind. The flame of inspiration is hidden within the lines of prayer; but since they are presented through the mute medium of printer’s ink, paper, and intellectual meanings, one must use his own intuition and devotion to forth their inner illumining flame.

Different minds reading the same article may interpret it differently. The vast ocean of truth can be measured and perceived only according to the capacity of one’s own intelligence and perception. Similarly, the inspiration behind prayer-demands will be felt according to the depths of own intuition and feeling.

In order to benefit fully from the nature’s warmth within prayer, one should take only a paragraph at a time from any demand, mentally picture the meaning, visualize descriptions of the figure of speech, and meditate deeply on it. Until the fiery essence emerges, free from word limitations.

One may wish to read a complete prayer-demand to get a quick view of its entire meaning. But if he will then reread it over and over again, many times, and then with closed repeatedly try to feel the deep inspiration behind and with it, he will spiritualize that prayer-that is, rouse the inspiring beneath the thick silken quilt of words.