The attractiveness of prayer

Those who really pray, go very often to the heart of a subject, in a very direst and simple way.In conversation with them, it seems pointless to advance the usual reasons, excuses and polite camouflage of ordinary social talk. Because true prayer is contact with reality, then prayerful people are real people. This reality gives them a certain attractive simplicity.It is the complicated person, the confused, the unreal and the false, pretending personality which surrounds itself with a cocoon of words which form a defensive barricade. I have always found that the truly prayerful have a devastating and somewhat surreal simplicity.
Someone who met the French Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin said about him:"The look in his eyes when they met yours, revealed the man's soul; his reassuring sympathy restored your confidence in yourself. Just to speak to him made you feel better;you knew he was listening to you and he understood you. His own faith was in the invincible power of love."This gift was not merely his natural bonhomie, but sprang from his deep life of prayer...