The 40 days to Oneness and Global Oneness Day by Anakha Coman and James Twyman

The Prayer of Oneness

“I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks.” — Mother Teresa

“Pray without ceasing.” — 1 Thessalonians 5:17

“The man whose prayer is so pure that he never asks God for anything does not know who God is, and does not know who he is himself: for he does not know his own need of God.” — Thomas Merton

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Exercise

You are a living prayer of Oneness. Your entire being is medicine—the “manna” for others. You live in communion and pray without ceasing. You are a channel of love and grace in the world.

Today’s practice has three parts. The first part invites you to be in constant conversation with God everywhere you are and everywhere you go. Engage in this dialogue just as you would with a dear friend, which God is. Place your awareness on the presence of God, and feel yourself naturally drawn into an ever-flowing conversation. Make the Divine your constant companion. How does practicing the presence of God transform you? Your life?

The second part of this practice asks you to become an embodiment of prayer: a living, breathing, walking, talking, eating, sleeping prayer. Your prayerful presence is all that’s necessary to achieve this. Make everything you do a prayer by devoting all of your actions (and inactions) to serving the growing Oneness. Remember that you’re standing on holy ground—the “ground” of your own being—right where you are in this very moment. Fan the flames of love, the Divine spark within you, and become a living prayer of Oneness. Allow this prayer by St. Teresa of Avila to inspire you:

Christ has no body now, but yours.
No hands, no feet on earth, but yours.
Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks compassion into the world.
Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good.
Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world.

The final part of today’s practice involves becoming aware of the unspoken prayer that lives in the center of your heart. In the words of author and spiritual teacher Dr. Matthew Robertson: “There is a prayer that lives in the center of your heart. If you pray it, it will change your life. How does it begin?” What is the prayer that lives within your heart that when uttered will change your life?

At the end of the day, sit in silence and loving communion with God. Breathe and become still and centered. Enter the temple of your heart. Listen to the sound of your unique inner drumbeat. There’s a prayer waiting to be heard. What is it? Allow yourself to speak it freely now. This is your prayer of Oneness.

Affirmation

I AM a living prayer of Oneness in constant communion with God and all life.