Even though I named this blog by the name of the Gra, and the Gra clearly holds learning Torah to be the central mitzvah, I think that a relationship with God has to be a give and take kind of thing. I don't think it can be all just learning what the Torah has to say but there has to be a kind of continuous conversation with God to open ones heart  for the words of the Torah to have  a place to enter.It is for this reason I think at least on weekends people should make a effort to go to some secluded spot preferable in the mountains or some forest in order to talk with God while no one else is around but you and Him.