The Promise

"Do you understand at all what the promise is and what the gift is? God is showing solicitude for the rebel.
When that gracious One called you back so kindly, oh, it is a wonder how your heart remained unmoved.
Who, really, can find bazaars where with a single rose you are buying whole fields of roses;
Where a hundred groves are offered to you in exchange for one seed, a hundred mines in exchange for one coin?
When indeed should fortune like this befall? A Sea has become the suitor for a drop. In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop and take in return a sea which is full of pearls.
...do not make any postponement, for these words come from the Sea of Grace."

Rumi (Vol 4, 2604-2623)

Commentary: Apparently the spiritual "market value" of our attention and prayers, will not offer any better return, than they will today. Sell and buy!