How to pray

Men and women run away from every goal,
whether worldly or spiritual, because they overestimate the initial task. The proper way is a bit at
a time. It is the same if someone eats too much;
they should diminish it daily by a small bit, gradually. In that way, before a year or two have
passed, they will have cut down what they eat by
half, reducing it in such a way that their body
does not notice. So it is with worship, withdrawing into solitude, attending to the service of God,
and prayer. When a person enters upon the Way
of God, for a while their prayers will be short. But
after that, if they pray with their whole heart,
their prayers will go on and on without end.

Rumi