The most important thing is, don’t give up.  Because even if you are in such a place and you absolutely don’t see God because it is so bad where you are, and so dirty, and you are so far gone, and you think you have no way of getting back to God, but if, for just one split second, you ask, “Where is God?” and you mamash cry, “Gevalt!” then because of your asking for it, at that very instant, you are reaching the very highest level in the world. ~ R’ Shlomo Carlebach zt”l