I don't pray for anything, but I have used affirmations in the past a few times. They are really a bit more like realizations in that on some level they have already happened.

If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

We are in the final stages of egoic madness. Almost the whole world is fighting each other.

You are not seeking to attain some future state. That is the fallacy of many spiritual seekers. They have an image of some state - enlightenment, or whatever they call it - they want to achieve.

I know that at the core of each religion there is the truth, heavily obscured in some cases, but it's there.

Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

When work is no more than a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.