When we have made ourselves fully available to our neighbor and to God, becoming emptied in the process, then at last we begin to live.
~ from HAPPINESS THAT LASTS by Martin Israel
A shah of Persia used to sit up at night for vigils and prayers. A friend who was visiting wondered at his long meditations after the whole day's work. "It is too much," he said, "you do not need so much prayer."
"Do not say so," was the answer. "You do not know. For at night I pursue God, and during the day God follows me."