quote: path

"The one who treads the path must be willing to risk the difficulties of the path; to be sincere, faithful, truthful, undoubting, not pessimistic or skeptical, otherwise with all his efforts he will not reach his aim. He must come whole-heartedly, or else he should not come at all....the qualities of the heart are needed, with the divinity of love as a first principle. Then one needs action, such action as will not hinder on the path of truth, such action as creates greater and greater harmony. And finally one needs repose, which makes it possible to learn by one day of silence what would otherwise take a year of study; if only one knows the real way of silence."
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life