“Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.”
Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman
Source: The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart
“Personally, though I am recognised all over the world as a teacher of meditation I have at the same time never relinquished my habit of prayer. I believe that the true occultist uses prayer and meditation interchangeably according to need and that both are equally important in the spiritual life. The trouble with prayer has been that the average human being makes it entirely a selfish thing and a means of acquisition of things for the separated self. True prayer asks nothing for the separated self but it will always be used by those who seek to help others.”
Source: The Unfinished Autobiography (1951), Chapter V - Part 1
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