I just read a beautiful and thought-provoking quote from Ramesh Balsekar's Net of Jewels.
"True prayer means not solicitation but communion. Prayer is communion in the same sense as that in true meditation there is neither a meditator nor anything meditated upon."
When I read it, I felt a "yes!" inside. It was one of those "that-feels-so-true-but-I-can't-say-why" moments. It seems to describe a state of oneness that could be seen as both the goal and means of both meditation and prayer. What the quote conveys to me is beyond words, and yet usually I associate prayer with words. Perhaps the deepest form of prayer is indeed beyond words.
What do you feel? What do the words "prayer" and "meditation" mean to you? Is prayer the same as meditation?