So many religions of the world traditionally reach out to God for peace, for direction, as if they were looking for a strength to come to them, a strength they don’t have, an insight they do not recognize. Such a relationship to an understanding of God is that God is somehow out there, and it is up to the human condition to reach out and ask, to reach out and request. Think of the wording of so many prayers. It is almost as if you were praying to a power that lies beyond you in some indeterminate location. But true prayer, prayer that is directed most meaningfully to God, is a prayer that is not directed elsewhere but instead is directed to self. If you pray for wisdom, that wisdom is within, and it is only to be unlocked and exercised, given life, given light. If you pray for peace or the end of conflict between people and nations, that peace, that relief from conflict is not somehow brought to you in a somewhat mysterious way, and suddenly you see peace evolving.