10-20-2008, 01:58 PM
Avoid making a progress, if you know that you will not be consistent along the way. In other words, don't try to achieve something high, if you think you are going to abandon it. Why? Because you will add up to your regrets one more thing. This is true about any activity, but especially it is true about spiritual advancement. I know a person, who made amazing spiritual progress. Then he decided to abandon his spiritual development. Now his voice it's like a sound coming from a big and empty barrel. The manners, knowledge are still present, but the heart is absent.