September 4

Effort

To coax God to give Himself takes steady, unceasing zeal. Nobody can teach you that zeal. You have to develop that yourself. "You can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink." Yet when the horse is thirsty it seeks out water with zeal. So, when you have an immense thirst for the Divine, when you will not give undue importance to anything else--the tests of the world or the tests of the body--then He will come.

--Paramahansa Yogananda, "How You Can Talk With God"