Vivekranthi: Growing up injuries and resentments, that creates. I am the one who is going to suffer. If I have a whole list, and a hard drive, a folder of people who have done wrong to me... My spiritual efforts, it will be wasted. So what is the attitude with which we should pray or do spiritual practice? Prayer is the fair flower of meekness and mildness. prayer is the fruit of joy and of thanksgiving. Happiness, the Ursay and Teresa of Avila who said, Sadhana is a bad nun. Why not say that please avoid walking on the glass? so gentle to that extent.
"Do not pray for the fulfillment of your wishes, for they may not accord with the will of God. But pray as you have been taught, saying: Thy will be done in me (cf. Luke 22:42). Always entreat Him in this way - that His will be done. For He desires what is good and profitable for you, whereas you do not always ask for this." - Evagrius Ponticus.
Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on Evagrius's teachings on prayer.