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All in him turns to spirit vastnesses. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-yoga-of-the-king-the-yoga-of-the-souls-release#p21</ref>
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… an aspiration (not formulated in words, naturally), what is called in English “a yearning”, “a longing” for this contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth, the Force of Love. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-7-1964#p30</ref>
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A sacred yearning lingered in its trace,
The worship of a Presence and a Power
Too perfect to be held by death-bound hearts,
The prescience of a marvellous birth to come. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-symbol-dawn#p39</ref>
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Now other claims had hushed in him their cry:
Only he longed to draw her presence and power
Into his heart and mind and breathing frame;
Only he yearned to call for ever down
Her healing touch of love and truth and joy
Into the darkness of the suffering world.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/33/the-adoration-of-the-divine-mother#p63</ref>
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There is no need of words in aspiration. It can be expressed or unexpressed in words. The aspiration need not be in the form of thought — it can be a feeling within that remains even when the mind is attending to the work. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/basic-requisites-of-the-path-iii#p14,p15</ref>
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?==
A body is his chamber and his shrine.
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/34/the-debate-of-love-and-death#p101</ref> </center>
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<center>In its deep lotus home her being sat
As if on concentration's marble seat,
Calling the mighty Mother of the worlds
To make this earthly tenement her house. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/34/the-finding-of-the-soul#p52</ref></center>