Thoughts from the Tibetan

Perhaps you prefer the slower and easier way.  If that is so, it is entirely your own affair, and you are still on your way.  You are still a constructive and useful person.  I am simply here facing you with one of the crises which come in the life of all disciples, wherein choices have to be made that are determining for a cycle, but for a cycle only.  It is pre-eminently a question of speed and of organizing for speed.  This means eliminating the non-essentials and concentrating on the essentials—the inner essentials, as they concern the soul and its relation to the personality, and the outer ones as they concern you and your environment.

Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. I, pp. 538-39