The Hidden Chamber

My beloved, let us pray in a hidden way with humility of heart...

Our Master bids us,

"When you pray, enter your chamber and close your door."

What, then, is this chamber, if not the inner house of the heart,

whose door is kept closed by humility...

Raise up your mind from this kosmos.

Dwell in the Kingdom of your Source,

assembled in the chamber of the heart's hiddenness.

~ adapted from Sahdona the Syrian (7th century)