One Source: 2

But there may be a merchant who chooses to attend just one fair, and that one, a small one. However, by remaining focused and diligent on the opportunities he has there, he ends up with much more substantial profits than the merchant who went from fair to fair.
So, too, when a person chooses an approach to serving Hashem, he should focus his energies on understanding and developing that one approach. He needs to work on internalizing the spiritual growth which that approach can afford him. Only then will he truly change and make his spiritual growth permanent.
This is analogous to marriage. A person can choose to run around from one partner to another without settling down into anything permanent. In the end he will find himself empty and with nothing with which to come away. However, deciding to build a permanent relationship, offers opportunities for personal growth that were otherwise unavailable.

The Value of a Relationship: 6

If a person enters a store and requests an item, there is nothing more to his words than his request. Other times the person listening to what is being said understands that there is another message behind the simple meaning of the words. For example, if a child come to her parent and starts telling her parent about something she did, while the child is verbalizing a simple story the parent hears "love" permeating every word.

But it is a completely different situation when a child is aware that her parent is moved from hearing what is going on with her and comes initially with that intent. Even though she is only telling a story and does not articulate the depth of feeling she is directing toward her parent's heart. The father understands the child's intent and his feeling to his child is even greater.

There is a private communication between the two of them. Someone who overhears the conversation may understand it in its simple superficiality, but their hearts that are full of mutual love understand what an outsider cannot.

The same is true of the praises from a recipient to his benefactor. There is the simple understanding of the words that are being spoken, but there is also a deeper message being communicated. The recipient is giving part of himself to his benefactor with his words. This is the hidden, unverbalized message that expresses the wonderful closeness they share.

With this we can understand the praises we say to Hashem in the Pesukei D'Zimrah. There is a deeper message underlying the words that we are communicating to Hashem. "Look into my heart and hear what I am saying. Understand how close I feel to You."

This depth of communication awakens the heart of the benefactor to reach out with kindness. It creates a deep, personal, connection between the two. Only the heart of man and Hashem can hear these deep feelings that are expressed in the words of praise. The result will be that the benefactor will happily entrust the recipient with all of His greatest treasures.

The Value of a Relationship: 2

When two people are involved in a close relationship each one sees the good points of the other, and not what they lack. As the Rebbe R' Elimielch taught to pray "That I should not see anything demeaning and I will despise him." You don't want to see the dark parts of the other person and end up distancing yourself from her. So, too, when Hashem is in relationship with a person He chooses not to look at the repulsive parts of the person. As the Pasuk says: לא הביט און ביעקב ולא ראה עמל בישראל ה' אלוקיו עמו ותרועת מלך בו, "He does not see out the iniquity in Yaakov and does not see the wrongdoing in Israel. Hashem his God is with him and the love of his king is in him."

There are those who err and spent their time communicating with Hashem telling Him of all of their sins and asking Him to have mercy on them, rather than engaging in a real heart-to-heart conversation. (The time for self-reckoning is not then.) It is like a child whose parent is feeling very proud of him, and the child stands up and announces all of the reasons why the father should be disappointed in him. He ruins the moment.

On the other hand if he correctly takes advantage of the opportunity by connecting joyfully with his inner self to Hashem, without looking at any of his shortcomings, it will soften the heart of Hashem and the person will come to real deep regret that will bring him to truly turn to do better. Otherwise, if he only focuses on his faults, he can come to depression and fall even further. A broken heart is one that is softened towards Hashem (a heart of flesh), not one that is depressed (a heart of stone). A broken heart should leave one desirous of Hashem, happy and given over to Hashem. As Rebbe Nachman writes: When a person is constantly happy he can easily devote some time each day to soften his heart before Hashem and to speak what is in his heart to Hashem. But when he is depressed it is difficult for him to connect and to speak his feelings.