Prayer is the
essential spiritual conversation of the soul with its Maker, direct and without
intermediation. It is the spiritual food that sustains the life of the spirit.
Like the morning’s dew, it brings freshness to the heart and cleanses it,
purifying it from attachments of the insistent self. It is a fire that burns
away the veils and a light that leads to the ocean of reunion with the
Almighty. On its wings does the soul soar in the heavens of God and draw closer
to the divine reality. Upon its quality depends the development of the
limitless capacities of the soul and the attraction of the bounties of God, but
the prolongation of prayer is not desirable.
(The Universal House of Justice,
from a message dated 18 December 2014 to the Baha’is in Iran)
