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A constant aspiration conquers all defects. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/aspiration#p20</ref>
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Sadhana is always difficult and everybody has conflicting elements in his nature and it is difficult to make the vital give up its ingrained habits.
That is no reason for giving up sadhana. One has to keep up the central aspiration which is always sincere and go on steadily in spite of temporary failures; and it is then inevitable that the change will come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/face-and-overcome-difficulties#p24,p25</ref>
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When the aspiration is awake, each day brings us nearer to the goal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/aspiration#p24</ref>
Surely you could not believe that sadhana could be done without facing some difficulties. As your aspiration is sincere, whatever was in the subconscient standing in the way of the Divine Realisation, has come to the surface in order to be transformed. There is nothing there to make you sad or depressed—on the contrary you ought to rejoice at these occasions to make progress and never forget to lean for support and help on my love, force and blessings. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/face-and-overcome-difficulties#p13</ref>
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The difficulties are always due to a resistance, some part or several parts of the being refusing to receive the force, the consciousness and the light put upon them and revolting against the divine influence. It is rare that somebody can surrender entirely to the Divine’s Will without having to face one or another of these difficulties. But to keep steady one’s aspiration and to look at oneself with an absolute sincerity are the sure means to overcome all obstacles. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-cause-and-utility-of-difficulties#p1</ref>
<center>~</center> In any case, the most effective starting-point, the swiftest method is total self-giving. Besides, no joy is more perfect than the joy of a total self-giving to whatever is the summit of your conception: for some it is the notion of God, for others that of Perfection. If this self-giving is made with persistence and ardour, a moment comes when you pass beyond the concept and arrive at an experience that escapes all description, but which is almost always identical in its effects. And as your self-giving becomes more and more perfect and integral, it will be accompanied by the aspiration for identification, a total fusion with That to which you have given yourself, and little by little this aspiration will overcome all differences and all resistances, especially if with the aspiration there is an intense and spontaneous love, for then nothing can stand in the way of its victorious drive. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/psychic-education-and-spiritual-education#p21</ref>
==For Progress and Self-perfection==