"When we pray for someone, an angel goes to sit on his shoulder." Pat Hopkins, who coauthored The Feminine Face of God, came up with this image in a discussion on prayer, and it has stayed with me, as an apt description — not only of what I hope happens when I pray, but as a metaphor for the summoning and sending of invisible support.
— Jean Shinoda Bolen, Pat , Close to the Bone by Jean Shinoda Bolen, Hopkins