Often the aspirant becomes discouraged when he begins to understand how very long and difficult the path is. But these are persons who are concentrating only on jumping to the final goal and have not yet been caught up in the absorbing challenges which call for the greatest ingenuity at every step of the way.
When the aspirant meets the challenge of life’s game, it becomes so exhilarating that there is little inclination to worry whether the goal is one or a crore [10 million] of lifetimes away.
A healthy approach to life contains the automatic answer to pessimism over the distance to be traveled.
-Listen Humanity, pp176-177, Ed. Don Stevens