Time

 There are different attitudes about prayer and they all have to do with time, the loss of it.  If you pray thinking it is a waste of time this is because prayer uses up time.  It is a surrendering of time that you don’t want to give up.  So you don’t surrender time to prayer.  You might rather surrender it to the internet or watching TV.  Someone else might see your surrender as a waste of precious time.  They would rather surrender time to prayer.  Prayer requires the letting go of time, just as does the internet and TV example.  So ask yourself, to what do you surrender your precious time, where you have a choice?  Addicted people have no choice.  But they do surrender sanity.