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To work for your perfection, the first step is to become conscious of yourself, of the different parts of your being and their respective activities. You must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of the origin of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to action. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-science-of-living#p5</ref> The most important point (what everybody says but only a few do) is to put into practice what you know. With that you have a good chance of succeeding, and with perseverance you will certainly get there. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-march-1951#p24</ref> Simply aspire with calm and perseverance for the light. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/30-august-1936#p5</ref> The more one advances, the more vigilant must one become. And the most essential quality is perseverance, endurance, and a kind of inner good humour which helps one not to get discouraged, not to become sad, and to face all difficulties with a smile. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/18-january-1956#p9</ref> If there are always forces around which are concerned to depress and discourage, there are always forces above and around us which we can draw upon,—draw into ourselves to restore, to fill up again with strength and faith and joy and the power that perseveres and conquers. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p75</ref>  The habit of remembering and applying one's knowledge at the right moment comes only by a great patience and perseverance which refuses to be discouraged by frequent failure. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-emergence-or-coming-forward-of-the-psychic#p42</ref> If you make a mistake, quietly observe it and correct the tendency next time. Even if the mistake recurs often, one has only to persevere quietly—remembering that nature cannot be changed in a day. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/depression-and-despondency#p67</ref> Whatever you do, never forget the goal which you have set before you. There is nothing great or small once you have set out on this great discovery; all things are equally important and can either hasten or delay its success. Thus before you eat, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the food you are about to eat may bring your body the substance it needs to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and give it the energy for persistence and perseverance in the effort. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/psychic-education-and-spiritual-education#p12</ref> There is only one thing that's important: that is a sincere and persistent will, for these things don't happen in a twinkling. So one must persevere. When someone feels that he is not advancing, he must not get discouraged; he must try to find out what it is in the nature that is opposing, and then make the necessary progress. And suddenly one goes forward. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-february-1954#p6</ref> If the education of the vital is carried far enough, with perseverance and sincerity, there comes a time when, convinced of the greatness and beauty of the goal, the vital gives up petty and illusory sensorial satisfactions in order to win the divine delight. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/the-four-austerities-and-the-four-liberations#p31</ref>