"People say "I pray day and night, but nothing is happening and nothing has changed. G-d is oblivious to my prayers". The answer is that you haven’t built a building yet. 

You haven’t put all the stones in. 

The words are not all there. 

Perhaps you haven’t put in enough kavannah into your prayers. The weight of each stone is from the kavannah you have. A person has to understand that if she prays and G-d doesn’t answer, either it’s because she hasn’t prayed enough or it’s for her good that G-d waits. It could be that she doesn’t really mean what she’s saying, or doesn’t really know what she’s saying. We only know what we want. G-d  waits until we clarify things with our mind and with our heart. 

Prayer is the highest level. There’s no reason, if a person prays enough, that she wouldn't be answered. That’s what Hashem told Moshe Rabbeinu in so many words: "If you pray one more prayer I'm going to have to let you come into Eretz Israel" because prayer is the key to all the doors. There’s no such thing that you cannot receive through prayer.

Prayer is the ultimate way to connect to Hashem. Prayer is on many levels above Torah and if a person prays correctly then G-d will give her anything she wants. Prayer is like a building – every word that you pray is like a brick or a stone. 

When you build a prayer, G-d will give you that building...."

Written from an excerpt from of a class given by Atarah Gur on Rebbe Nachman's story "Master of Prayer"

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