Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it.
Hazrat Inayat Khan (1982). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Healing, Mental Purification and the Mind World”, p.467, Library of Alexandria
