Very often people ask, "How long has one to go on on the spiritual path?" There is no limit to the length of this path, and yet if one is ready, it does not need a long time. It is a moment and one is there. How true it is, what the wise of past ages said to their followers, "Do not go directly into the temple; first walk fifty times around it!" The meaning was, "First get a little tired, then enter." Then you value it. One values something for which one makes an effort; if it comes without effort, it is nothing to one. If a government should ask a tax for the air one breathes, people would protest against it. Yet they do not know that there is no comparison between the air and the money they possess. The value of the one is incomparably greater than of the other. And yet the most valuable things are attained with least effort. But one does not realize their importance. One would rather have something which is attained with a great effort and in the end may prove to be nothing.