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It is easy to fall into a gloomy pessimism and say that the spiritual life is not for him, that he is unfit to practise its arduous exercises and that he had better abandon what is manifestly only for those blessed with luck or genius. Yet he would be wrong to assume that because the path is not easy he is mistaken in aspiring to it. Because it is not just a matter of daydreaming, nor passing from one thrilling inner experience to another, because hard work and unflagging perseverance are demanded from him, there is still no need to despair.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 2 : Its Choice > # 92