In regard to his affairs, let him repeat nineteen times: “Thou seest me, O my God, detached from all save Thee and cleaving unto Thee. Guide me, then, in all mine affairs unto that which profiteth me for the glory of Thy Cause and the loftiness of the station of Thy loved ones.” Let him then reflect upon the matter and undertake whatever cometh to mind. This vehement opposition of the enemies will indeed give way to supreme prosperity.
This was revealed by Bahá’u’lláh for Shaykh Kázim Samandar, date unknown but in the latter part of the 19th cent., probably in tumultuous times.
There’s also a nice song with this text in one of my favorite albums, Radiant Heart (Shadi & Shidan Toloui-Wallace, bilingual)
Decisions can be hard — you look at what you’re leaving and you see an ending, with no assurance of anything positive to replace it. But not acting is an assurance of nothing positive to replace it either, and time runs out.
Praying is hard too; reading or saying the words is easy, but that’s only to call out the feelings and yearnings, which I still can hardly ever do, after decades. Then being still and “listening” neutrally, without prejudice, is even harder; never wholly attainable. Buddhist meditation might have the idea. You have to be empty.