In the provided materials, it is emphasized that the astonishment of believers may be elicited both by the diversity and the depth of manifestations of spiritual practice, which are closely intertwined with one’s personal experience of prayer. On one hand, every person approaches God in their own way, with the form, intensity, and even emotional quality of the prayer being unique to each individual. For example, one excerpt emphasizes that “the history of personal religiosity begins for each of us in early childhood... All people pray differently and in their own way: some almost never, only in moments of greatest danger and profound sorrow; others every morning and evening; still others almost continuously, with the trembling of the heart,” pointing to the diversity in approaches to communicating with the Divine and, correspondingly, to the possibility of unexpected experiences (source: 1491_7453.txt).