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To study the need for, and the essence of, prayer, we shall have to enter on a description of soul depths of which the words of Heraclitus are only too true: “You can never fathom the boundaries of the soul even though you tread every path, so all-embracing is it.” Thus, even if in prayer we seek only for the secrets of the soul, it is true that these inmost feelings that are stirred in prayer teach even the simplest of us something of the infinite expanses of soul life.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Prayer","site_heading":null,"date":"1910-02-17","location":null,"word_count":168,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/59/1910-02-17/p009","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Henry B. 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