Self-Knowledge...

You need both clarity and earnestness for
self-knowledge. You need maturity of heart
and mind, which comes through earnest
application in daily life of whatever little
you have understood. There is no such thing
as compromise in Yoga.

If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and
openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach
the earnest sinner, as virtues - the earnest
saint. It is the mixing up of the two that is
so disastrous. Nothing can block you so
effectively as compromise, for it shows
lack of earnestness, without which nothing
can be done.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

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This quotation is from:
"I Am That"
Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The Acorn Press, 1973