Prayer: Augustine on Desire and Prayer

Augustine of Hippo taught that the deepest prayer is desire itself. In his letter to Proba he wrote: "Your very desire is your prayer; and if your desire is continual, your prayer is continual also. For the Apostle did not say without cause, 'Pray without ceasing.' Does he mean that we are to be incessantly on bended knees, or prostrate, or lifting up our hands?…