“Don’t think about your problems during your practice. Push them aside very gently. Take a break from all that worrying and planning. Let your meditation be a complete vacation. Trust yourself, trust your own ability to deal with these issues later, using the energy and freshness of mind that you built up during your meditation….

“[A] prayer is simply the way the light asks to see itself. . . . The light can also be described as pure love. When acting as pure love, it bestows everything freely; this is grace. . . . Every enemy is a symbol of your own loveless state. The absence of love gets filled…