Prayer is a quality

people need to understand that it is not the prayer which makes the difference, it is being prayerful as a quality and not as an act which makes the difference. Generally, prayer as we know it is an effort to talk to someone — an effort to talk to the Creator or God as you believe He or She is.

You try to tell Him what He should do or you try to thank Him for what He did. If it really is the Divine that you are talking about, it is quite silly of you to tell Him what to do. And if He does not know what to do, it is not worth having a relationship. This is the essential difference between prayer and meditation. In the first, you try to talk to God. In the second, you just see how to listen to the Creator. Listening makes much more sense than talking because listening is perception. When you know you are ignorant, talking is just blabber.

The less you talk the better. 
 —Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev