Living a Spiritual Life in the Modern World

"Today, the spiritual seeker lives the dual life of worldly activity and of intense and simultaneous spiritual reflection. This will be the outstanding characteristic of the Western disciple in contradistinction to the Eastern disciple who escapes from life into the silent places and away from the pressures of daily living and constant contact with others. The task of the Western disciple is much harder, but that which he will prove to himself and to the world as a whole will be still higher", from the book GLAMOUR: A WORLD PROBLEM by Alice Bailey.