Kathleen Norris hit the bullseye with a quote from Graham Green's novel, A Burnt Out Case: "People have prayed in prisons, in slums, and concentration camps. It's only the middle classes who who demand to pray in suitable surroundings."
Go to any bookstore and you can find material on designing the perfect home alter or prayer space, meditation music......whatever. The danger is that you'll spend so much time and energy setting up the perfect space, finding the perfect prayer book, and getting the perfect music you won't have time to pray. Hmmmm......maybe it's time to ask what you're running away from.
There's money in them there prayin' people. And if you actually start praying, you may find that's all you need. Solitude is nice. We can't always get it. We could learn much from the Japanese. To be able to quietly meditate while the world around you buzzes along is a rare gift.
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