When Time Stands Still 

The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky rebelled against the Czar and along with others of his student group he was arrested and sentenced to death. His imminent execution served to slow the movement of time into awareness. He was reprieved at the final moment.

Dostoyevsky on his way to the firing squad

Died a thousand times with each step

Drank everything in:

Each mood, each whim

Each texture, nuance, shape, color

Saw everything through the eyes of God.

Remembered!

Felt time still to outside in

All is within! All is within!

Felt eternity in a moment’s thrill

Cried the tears of the damned in sin

And felt the loss he was about to win.

The above poem describes Dostoevsky’s epiphany. All is within! There is no outside God - nothing to pray to. Pray to yourself and know that you are God.

This above all: to thine own self be true
                                            
                                                           William Shakespeare, Hamlet,1.iii 81