"Objectivity and Godwardness"

The Young Fogey quotes Lauren Winner as saying, "I have sometimes set aside my prayer book for days and weeks on end, and I find, at the end of those days and weeks on end, that I have lapsed into narcissism." — One of the points of liturgical prayer.

"It is returning to my prayer book that places me," she says. "Liturgy is not, in the end, open to our emotional whims. It repoints the person praying, taking him somewhere else."

Comments left by me hint at my experience, as does this recent post — My New, Smaller Office.