"This is how you pray continually--not by offering prayer in words, but by joining yourself to God through your whole way of life, so that your life becomes one continuous and uninterrupted prayer." St. Basil the Great

This is the way to true holiness. St. Paul urged us to pray unceasingly. Verbal prayer is part of that way of praying, but not the only way. When we live according to the commandment of love, when we are just and true, when we respect each person for who they are in the eyes of God, when we make Jesus the Lord of our lives, then we are also praying. Our way of life is a prayer. This is how Jesus prayed. He went aside to have intimate moments with the Father, to seek his will. Then he would go about doing the will of the Father as part of his prayer.  The Saints-=not only the canonized saints but the unknown ones-- leaned this and followed the example of Jesus. At first, this may seem hard or even impossible for us. But if we attempt to do this the best we can, we will soon see how the grace of God makes what seem impossible very doable.