The proper way of relying on G-d in regards to Him bestowing grace upon His chosen and treasured ones in the World to Come a great bounty of indescribable good is like this: One should employ the means that will help him attain a high degree of the pious who are worthy of this Divine grace. Such as acting in accordance with the qualities of the ascetic who shun this world, banishing the love and preference for this world from one's heart and replacing it with love of the Creator, may He be exalted, devotion to Him, delighting in Him, feeling spiritually lonely in this world and among its inhabitants, and adopting the practice of the prophets and pietists. And then one should have trust in G-d that He will bestow grace upon him as He bestowed grace upon them in the World to Come. pg 445
Once, on a Motzoei Shabbos, the chasidim were sitting in the bais medrash of the Ruzhiner Rebbe zy”a for Melave Malka. Suddenly, the Rebbe opened the door of his room next to the bais medrash, stood at the entrance, and said, “The Baal Shem Tov was not a deity, and the zaida, the Magid, was not just an ordinary wagon driver. And once, when the holy Baal Shem Tov prayed, his talis fringe fell out of his gartel and dragged on the floor. The Magid approached, picked it up, and put it back in the gartel, but he was trembled with such tremendous fear that he fainted and his life was in danger. They were compelled to rouse the Baal Shem Tov from his deep dveikus in order to calm him.” He then added, “I told you that the Baal Shem Tov was not a deity and my zaida, the Magid, was no wagon driver. Still and all, when he touched the Besht’s garment, he fainted from fear. The entire world is Hashem’s garment. How much fear must we feel to touch this world!” May the memory of the...