I saw a great quote recently.

"Don't tell Guard how big your problems are.  Tell your wallet how big Guard's bills are."

gibbor120 wrote on 12 Sep 2011 14:18:

is that what you meant?

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 12 Sep 2011 17:48:

Another winner!

gibbor120 wrote on 12 Sep 2011 17:59:

I don't get it.... did you mean that?

But what is the antidote for the person who feels so heavy, so depressed, that no words of
encouragement or advise have any effect? To the one who feels he has reached the end of his
rope ... feeling so low and discouraged about himself that he can only term himself "dead." Rabbi
Nachman throws a lifeline: He stresses the statement of the Gemara that in the future, Hashem
will resurrect the entire body through a certain bone known as the "Luz". Invisible to the eye, the
Luz defies destruction. Placed on a stone and pounded repeatedly with a sledgehammer,
eventually the sledgehammer will break in two and the stone will shatter into a thousand pieces -
but the Luz will remain intact and unharmed. "Thus we see," says Rabbi Nachman, "that no
matter how low a person has fallen, there exists an indestructible part in him, that can form the
basis for a new resurrection - a new life."

Focus on your Luz , advises Rabbi Nachman. Ask HaShem to help you find that indestructible
part, that essence of yourself that no sin or misfortune can erase. Bind yourself to it. Concentrate
on it. Allow it to gladden you and make you happy. Then, even if you find yourself in the deepest,
darkest pit without the slightest trace of hope or light - still, you will always find your way out.

Our Sages tell us that after the destruction of the Temple, "all the Gates (which prayers travel through) were closed, except for the Gates of Tears"[Bava Metzia 59a]. It is much more difficult for our prayers to penetratethe Heavenly Court after the destruction of the Temple. But there is one Gate that remains open -- the Gates of the Tears.

It is said that the Kotzker Rebbe asked: if the Gates of Tears never close,then what is the purpose of the Gates? A gate implies that some get in and some do not. He answered that tears of desperation don't get through. When a person cries because he feels he needs the help of G-d, when the tears represent the innermost and purest of a person's thoughts ('the sweat of the soul') those tears have terrific power. But not if they are tears of helplessness and hopelessness -- those tears don't get in and that is why the gates are necessary.