On Prayer Briefly

In early times certain people would prepare for an hour before prayer. They spent another hour letting it sink in. Maybe it was like meditation? (- asks Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan). Maybe. Traditional thinking seems to see prayer as anti-meditation. The point almost seems to be to get tense.

Rabbi Moshe Eiseman points out that when many people in the frum world speak of learning something quickly/superficially they say they daven it up. He asks, what does this say about our approach to prayer?