Question: Opportunity seems to be a gift, a grace. Are there times when opportunity can be an obstacle?
Sri Chinmoy: Yes, opportunity is a gift: it is a grace. But this opportunity can be a real obstacle if it is misused badly. To have money, to have material wealth, is to have a great opportunity in serving the poor. But if you misuse the money-power, the opportunity you had now stands as an obstacle to your realisation of Truth and Light. Therefore, you must always try to use all your opportunities devotedly and wisely.
Sri Chinmoy, At the doors of time and delight opportunity knocks, Agni Press, 1974