No sadhak ought ever to indulge thoughts of unfitness and hopelessness—they are quite irrelevant because it is not one's personal fitness and worthiness that makes one succeed, but the Mother's grace and power and the consent of the soul to her grace and the workings of her Force. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p31</ref>
==Shed the Ego==
How many blows are needed in life for one to know to the very depths that one is ''nothing'', that one can do ''nothing'' that one ''does not exist'', that one is ''nothing'', that there is no entity without the divine Consciousness and the Grace. From the moment one knows it, it is over; all the difficulties have gone. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p37</ref>
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Let us offer our will to the Divine Grace; it is the Grace that accomplishes all. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p50</ref>
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Have an absolute trust in the Grace, set aside your little personality and allow the Grace to act. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p27</ref>
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It is when all seems lost that all can be saved. When you have lost confidence in your personal power, then you should have faith in the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p38</ref>
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...to be grateful, never to forget this wonderful Grace of the Supreme who leads each one to his divine goal by the shortest ways, in spite of himself, his ignorance and misunderstanding, in spite of the ego, its protests and its revolts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/july-15-1964#p1</ref>
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When you let things work on their own, there's... there's EVERYWHERE a Consciousness and a Grace that do EVERYTHING so that EVERYTHING may go smoothly, and that imbecility is what constantly upsets everything—oddly enough! Self-centered imbecility, that's right: what Sri Aurobindo called "the old man." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/10/november-19-1969#p98</ref>
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The true spiritual or psychic vision is this, "Whatever I may be, my soul is a child of the Divine and must reach the Divine sooner or later. I am imperfect but seek after the perfection of the Divine in me and that not I but the Divine Grace will bring about; if I keep to that, the Divine Grace itself will do all." The "I" has to take its proper place here as a small portion and instrument of the Divine, something that is nothing without the Divine but with the Grace can be everything that the Divine wishes it to be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p55</ref>
==Sanskrit words for "Grace"==