Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra: Love and Prayer

Prayer is the transcendence of time and thus an entry into the timelessness, eternity, perfection, and splendor of God. Prayer is our inclusion in the life of God, our perichoresis in God, and, if I may put it this way, our obliteration in God, so that we might become one with Him. This is what happens in prayer; this is what prayer is. And this is why love and prayer are so closely aligned that each can signify the other.
+ Elder Aimilianos of Simonopetra, from The Mystical Marriage