What we are saying is that whatever you are truly praying for exists within you. It is not something bestowed on you. It is something which emanates from you. Granted, there are prayers that are self-directed. There are those who pray for greater success, greater influence, greater authority, more impact, more respect, but those prayers are really not about those items. Those prayers are actually prayers for a sense of self-worth, self-respect, and from that self-respect, a growing respect for others. People who feel very incomplete pray for what they perceive could fill that void, but within those prayers is the reality of a desire to connect to the possibility of that void being filled from within.