If you ever have a choice of fulfilling your needs and those of your other family members by a different means of livelihood - a means of livelihood which would be more conducive for your Krishna consciousness - as opposed to keeping the same means of livelihood just because you want to make more money so that you can give big donations for Krishna, then your Krishna consciousness is more important to me than big donations. I am happiest when my disciples are making progress in their Krishna consciousness. Everything else will follow in a natural way.
May 18, 2002, Letter