>What is prayer, then? To most people in our society, in or out of the orthodox religions of the West, it’s generally thought to be the practice of talking to God in order either to please God by praising him or to ask for the things one desires.
>That assumption is the idea that the point of prayer is the effect it has on God—whether by pleasing him, or by inducing him to grant favors, or in some other way.
>The purpose of prayer is found, quite simply, in its effect on the person who prays. To give the orthodox religions their due, this same point is central to the higher understanding of prayer in most major traditions.
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