Castaneda
“Any path is only a path and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your hearth tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. I warn you. This question is one that only a very old man asks. Does this path have a hearth? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.”
Carlos Castaneda, The Teaching of Don Juan