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If men had an absolute faith in the healing power of Grace, they would perhaps avoid many illnesses. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p8</ref>

You are given an illness purposely to make you progress? Surely it is not like that. Actually, you may turn the thing round and say that there are people whose aspiration is so constant, whose goodwill so total that whatever happens to them they take as a trial on the path to make progress. I knew people who, whenever they fell ill, took that as a proof of the Divine Grace to help them to progress. They told themselves: it is a good sign, I am going to find out the cause of my illness and I shall make the necessary progress. I knew a few of this kind and they moved on magnificently. There are others, on the contrary, who, far from making use of the thing, let themselves fall flat on the ground. So much the worse for them. But the true attitude when one is ill, is to say: "There is something that is not all right; I am going to see what it is." You must never think that the Divine has purposely sent an illness, for that would truly be a very wicked Divine! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p18,p19,p20</ref>

Have faith. There is no disease which cannot be cured by the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/cure-by-the-divine-grace#p3</ref>

The only thing I can suggest about diseases is to call down peace. Keep the mind away from the body by whatever means—whether by reading Sri Aurobindo's books or meditation. It is in this state that the Grace acts. And it is the Grace alone that cures. The medicines only give a faith to the body. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/peace-and-quiet-faith-and-surrender#p10</ref>

When physical disorder comes, one must not be afraid; one must not run away from it, must face it with courage, calmness, confidence, with the certitude that illness is a ''falsehood'' and that if one turns entirely, in full confidence, with a complete quietude to the divine grace, it will settle in these cells as it establishes itself in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Delight. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/fear-and-illness#p7</ref>