Bila mengingat kembali akan kata-kata dibawah ini, aku sering berfikir..
"It is a great mistakes to believe that distractions are a sign that you can't pray, for what does it really mean, if you have a hundred and one distractions in a prayer? It means that one hundred and one time, you have turned away from distractions and turned back to God. Which also mean, you have repeatedly said NO to SELF, and YES to GOD, performed a hundred and one acts of selfless loving. It actually means that you have repented one hundred and one times"
"Prayer is the place (time), where we set aside concentrated periods of time to learn how to become selfless. Like all other forms of learning, it involves performing series after series of selfless action ever a habit is learned. It leads us to gain the inner facility of selflessness, that is the only authentic sign of sanctity.."
"No one will ever learn anything without putting time aside for continual practice"
"...no matter how many times you fail in prayer, breathes the breath of humility into the very way in which you try. It is the humility of one who knows their weakness, know that they will fail time and time again, but is never deterred from starting anew no matter how many times they may fall"
"They are angry not because they have failed God, but because they have failed themselves, and the great ideals, they have set for themselves. Whenever you find yourself getting angry with your failure in prayer, be sure that it is your own pride that has been injured. The humble person is never surprised by failure, nor do they delay in beginning again to turn back to the only One, Who can bring strength out of weakness"
"Success does not consist in not falling, so much as in continually getting up. It is all in the getting up, or more precisely in the gentle way in which we get off the ground to start again, sorry for having fallen, but never surprised"
"Prayer is a process of continual inner conversion that involves gently trying to turn, open and surrender the heart to God"
- bahawasanya persoalan "khusyuk" itu tidak terhad semata-mata kepada sejenis agama sahaja, rupa-rupanya.. Maknanya,'air suci' itu tidaklah juga berupaya untuk memudahkan proses mendekati Tuhan..
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