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= Perseverance is a Process =
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It takes time, steadfast endeavour, long continued aspiration and a calm </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">to get anywhere in Yoga; that time you do not give yourself because of these recurrent swingings away from the right attitude</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #d9d9d9;">.</span> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><ref> Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Attacks by the hostile forces. In&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Letters on yoga 4''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/attacks-by-the-hostile-forces#p16 </ref> </span> <div style="margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0.132cm;">&nbsp;</div>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">You must </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">in your effort until you do succeed.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">You must be sincere in your </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><nowiki>; then the things you cannot do today, you will one day be able to do, after regular and persistent efforts.</nowiki></span> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;"> <ref> The Mother. (2003).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">4 january 1972. In&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''More answers from the mother''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/4-january-1972#p1 </ref> </span>
 
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">You must first have a great deal of </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">in the search, for usually when one begins searching for these things the mind comes to give a hundred and one favourable explanations for your not needing to search. It tells you, "Why no, it is not at all your fault; it is this, it is that, it is the circumstances, it is the people, these are things received from outside—all kinds of excellent excuses, which, unless you are very firm in your resolution, make you let go, and then it is finished; and so, after a short time the whole business has to be started again, the bad impulse or the thing you didn't want, the movement you didn't want, comes back, and so you must begin everything over again—till the day you decide to perform the operation. When the operation is done it is over, one is free.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">If one wants to take the trouble, one can enlarge his field considerably. But it asks for work, for </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">, a kind of assiduous effort.</span>
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;"> <ref> The Mother. (2003).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">18 may 1955. In&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Questions and answers (1955)''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/18-may-1955#p88 </ref> </span>
 
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There is only needed the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">to go on till this resistance breaks down.</span>
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