Prayer

 

Rumi was once asked:

What do you "gain" from praying regularly?

He replied:

Usually "I don't earn anything" but rather "I lose certain things".

And he quoted everything he lost praying to 

 regularly:

I lost my pride

I lost my arrogance

I lost my anger

I lost stress

I lost greed

I lost the pleasure of lying

I lost the taste of sin

I lost the impatience

I lost despair and discouragement

Sometimes we pray, not to gain something, but to lose things that don't allow us to grow personally and spiritually.

Prayer educates, strengthens, and heals.