Without conviction no real work is possible for the true worker. This conviction can never be thrust from above. It must come from within. We must be in love with our ideal, the very purpose for our work. From the glory of our ‘vision’ within will come the gloriously effective work outside. .
By conviction I do not mean an intellectual conviction, but an incapacity to be otherwise. Your work must compel you to act, it must be as intimate as your breathing. Even when you are drowning deep under water, when you know air is not there, still you breathe in the water.
Why? Without breathing you cannot remain. Just as the compulsion is there to breathe under water, if you feel such a compulsion for cultural work, then not to work is agony. Such an individual is the true worker in the spiritual field.