Your striving for what is absolutely guaranteed to you and your laxness in what is required of you are evidence that your inner eye is dull. If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. If you do, that will dim your inner eye and put out the light of your secret. When He opens a way for you and makes Himself known to you, then do not worry about your lack of deeds. He only opened the way for you because He desired to make Himself known to you.
Different states have different outcomes.
This accounts for the variety of types of action. Actions are merely propped-up shapes. Their life-breath is the presence of the secret of sincerity in them. Bury your existence in the earth of obscurity. If something sprouts before it is buried, its fruits will never ripen.