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The Reverential Life

He who sits with humbled, bowed head and folded, clasped, or knees-rested hands, with mind and heart in awed reverence, in sincere, worshipful, and rapt absorption which is aware of nothing else than the divine presence--he is praying, is meditating, is worshipping, is in heaven already.

1. Devotion
   • The greatest love
   • Warnings and suggestions
2. Prayer
   • Forms of prayer
   • Misunderstandings and misuses
   • Human petition, divine response
3. Humility
   • The need
   • The practice
4. Surrender
   • Avoid self-deception
   • Accept responsibility
   • The process
   • Its effect
5. Grace
   • Its transmission
   • Karma and forgiveness
   • The power of the Other
   • The significance of self-effort
   • Preparing for grace
   • The mysterious Presence