The Essence of Praying

The Essence of Praying A poem about the value of praying inspired by Ancient Greek Wisdom Pray to contemplate the joys of life As a prayer removes the ire of strife Giving your soul the essence of unity To travel your path to Divine totality For praying guards you against thoughts Of wrath, badness and irresponsible acts Lowering your egoism and self-centeredness And clearing your psyche from all viciousness A prayer demolishes all injustice instantly Making you integrate better into humanity As it frees your mind to think more wisely Leading your heart to the land of all-mercy For praying, adds to your soul, supreme beauty And transforms your composition of constancy As it makes your permanence quite transitory To seek, for your sins, the blessings of Almighty Always taking into deep consideration the following prayer is attributed to Socrates: ‘Beloved Pan and you other Gods, Those we adore in this land, Make me beautiful internally in my soul. Make the material things I have, Harmonious with my ideas. To think wealthy only the wise man, To have and hold so much property, As can be acquired and tolerated by a reasonable man’.