The natural tendency is to treat matters of the spirit as luxury items—sort of an appendage to life.
Eating, sleeping, making money—these things are given priority, and the time dedicated to them is sacrosanct.
But prayer, meditation and study fit in only when you feel like it, and are pushed aside on the slightest whim.
You’ve got to make your priorities faithful to your inner self. You’ve got to ask yourself if this is what your life is all about.
Set a schedule for spiritually enriching activities. Be as tough with that schedule as a workaholic would be with his business.
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Timely reminder As a little girl I grew up watching my grandmother, who raised me, give soo much time to her business and money matters..that I believed those where the important things in life. She would send me to church yet, on occasions she would be too busy to go. Those Childhood Impressions were internalized and I see that as an adult I follow the Incorrect lesson learned; Presently In my spiritual journey I know that in fact HASHEM must be first in my life, but the impressions learned as a child runs so deep, that it gets in the way many times of my resolve to give priority to my prayer life and when I do it, I rush through it, to get to work on time. Thank you rebbe for the reminder, I this day and moment ask G-D for forgiveness for this unproductive behaviour, which got in the way of my relationship with Him...Thank you, thank you, once again for this most timely reminder!!!