Here, @carmalain7, is a beautiful quote by a poet friend of mine, Joe Weil, that I thought you might appreciate:
Prayer is also an action: to give bread to someone who is starving is a prayer. To sit with a friend who is grieving is a prayer. The actual is the room of prayer. It exists only for prayer. It is empty of all excpet prayer. Every part of being prays through the breath and when the breath is gone, we have left the room of the actual, and we have become prayer itself-- which continues through the bodies of those who are in the room. Eventually, there is no life, no death, no inside or outside, no actual and imaginary-- only prayer which is the dynamic between all these distinctions-- that which makes and gathers them as one.