If you pray to ask for something, it is not prayer - OSHO

"If you pray to ask for something, it is not prayer. When you pray to thank him for something, only then is it prayer. Prayer is always a thanksgiving. If you ask for something then the prayer is still corrupted by desire. Then it is not prayer yet - it is still poisoned by dreaming. Real prayer happens only when you have attained to yourself, when you have known what God has given to you already without your asking for it.

When you realise what you have been given, what infinite sources have been given to you, a prayer arises You would like to say to God, 'Thankyou.' There is nothing else in it but a pure thank you.

When a prayer is just a thank you it is a prayer. Never ask for anything in a prayer; never say, 'Do this, do that; don't do this, don't do that.' Never advise God. That shows your irreligiousness, that shows your lack of trust. Thank him. Your life is already a benediction, a blessing.

Each moment is such pure joy, but you are missing it, that I know. That's why the prayer is not arising - otherwise you would build a house of prayer; your whole life would become that house of prayer; you would become that temple - his shrine. His shrine would burst from your being. He would flower in you and his fragrance would spread to the winds."

~ Osho♣♣♣♣⁠⁠⁠⁠