Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.

If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.

Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.

If you seek Him, God can raise you up, and replace the darkness of the ocean, with the light of His Sun.

Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.