“All the great prayers in the Bible are not requests, they are affirmations. Think of the Lord’s Prayer. It goes, “Thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses.” It doesn’t say please can we have some food, and it doesn’t say please can we be forgiven. It merely affirms that these things are ready to happen already, and by faithfully assuming that they will, we make it so.” – James Redfield, The Secret of Shambhala