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= Why is Perseverance Important? =
Without perseverance one never attains anything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/letters-to-a-young-sadhak-vii#p3</ref> One must know that if a strong urge, a very strong urge to do something comes to them, that means this work has something to do with them and they are capable of doing it. But one can have powers which are so well hidden that one has to dig long before finding them, it’s important not to get discouraged at the first setback. How can one know whether one is capable of doing it or not! By trying. That's the best thing ...for usually when you begin 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’s finished—you have to start again from the beginning till the day you decides to perform the operation. When the operation is done it is over, one is free. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p40</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/14-october-1953#p40</ref> <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/16-march-1955#p9</ref> For a happy and effective life, the essentials are sincerity, humility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for progress. Above all, one must be convinced of a limitless possibility of progress. Progress is youth; at a hundred years of age one can be young. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p18</ref> If one wants to take the trouble, one can enlarge his field considerably. But it asks for work, for perseverance, a kind of assiduous effort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/18-may-1955#p88</ref> You may not know at every moment what is the best thing to do or how to do it, but you can place your will at the disposal of the Divine to do the best possible, the best thing possible. You will see it will have marvelous results. Do this with consciousness, sincerity, and perseverance and you will find yourself getting along with gigantic strides. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/17-february-1951#p21</ref> When you want to progress, the difficulty you want to conquer immediately increases tenfold in importance and intensity in your consciousness. There is but to Persevere, that's all. It will pass. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/21-august-1957#p12</ref>
For a happy and effective life, the essentials are sincerity, humility, perseverance and an insatiable thirst for progress. Above all, one must be convinced of a limitless possibility of progress.No victory can be won without a fixed fidelity to the aim and a long effort. There is no other way than to persevere.