Implicit faith in the Scriptures. An intense desire for liberation. The dropping of worldly desires, ambitions and loves. The fact that essentially we human beings are Spirits does not miraculously transform us into saints. Saints only, can realize God.
Divine virtues build spiritual character and are, in truth, the measure of human worth.
Yet the next morning finds you again heavy, slothful and inert. The reason is that mostly - you function in your physical and lower subtle bodies and only now and again go to the purified mental body, which gives you temporary inspiration. The first is repository of various thoughts, ideations, etc. It all the time catches the flow of thoughts and emotions and identifies itself with them and with the insentient body. All intuitive illumination, all immediate knowledge comes from this part of your being which is closely connected with the Soul.