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→What is Aspiration?
A: No, aspiration is a thing to be developed, educated, like all activities of the being. One may be born with a very slight aspiration and develop it so much that it becomes very great. One may be born with a very small will and develop it and make it strong. It is a ridiculous idea to believe that things come to you like that, through a sort of grace, that if you are not given aspiration, you don’t have it—this is not true.
….It is you who must want to do it. When it is done, all goes well, when you have the Knowledge also, all goes well, and when you are identified with the Divine, all goes even better, but till then you must will, choose and decide. Don’t go to sleep lazily, saying, “Oh! The work will be done for me, I have nothing to do but let myself glide along with the stream.” Besides, it is not true, the work is not done by itself, because if the least little thing thwarts your little will, it says, “No, not that!...” <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/21-april-1951#p12</ref>
'''Earth's Aspiration
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Alarmed by the sorrow dragging at her feet
And conscious of the high things not yet won,
Ever she nurses in her sleepless breast
An inward urge that takes from her rest and peace.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-secret-knowledge#p40</ref>
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Ignorant and weary and invincible,
She seeks through the soul's war and quivering pain
The pure perfection her marred nature needs,
A breath of Godhead on her stone and mire. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-secret-knowledge#p41</ref>
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A faith she craves that can survive defeat,
The sweetness of a love that knows not death,
The radiance of a truth for ever sure.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-secret-knowledge#p42</ref>
==What is Aspiration in Relation to Other Qualities?==