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=What Is is Aspiration?=
Aspiration is a dynamic push of your whole nature behind the resolution to reach the Divine.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/knowledge-by-unity-with-the-divine-the-divine-will-in-the-world#p3</ref> [It is] the turning upward of the inner being with a call, yearning, prayer for the Truth or whatever else is the aim of one’s endeavour. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/aspiration#p12</ref>.
==Aspiration In in Relation To to Other Divine Qualities?== ===Aspiration and Peace===
In addition to aspiration let there also be calm and peace and joy in the mind and heart, and a confidence that all will be done in its due time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/aspiration#p31</ref>
===Aspiration and Perfection===
In works, aspiration towards Perfection is true spirituality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p45</ref>
===Aspiration and Sincerity===
Also total sincerity is needed for the aspiration to be fulfilled. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-newness-of-the-integral-yoga#p10</ref>
==How is Aspiration Different from Desire?== Aspiration is not mixed with any interested and egoistic calculation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/aspiration#p2</ref> In aspiration there is an unselfish flame which is not present in desire. True aspiration does not come from the head; even when it is formulated by a thought, it springs up like a flame from the heart. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/22-february-1951#p19,p20</ref> ==What Is Aspiration In The Different Parts Of of Being?==
===Mental Aspiration===
===Physical Aspiration===
The body may feel the need to have the power to hold off illness and that the body may always function normally, harmoniously, in perfect health.... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/7-october-1953#p11</ref>
Unless one practises yoga in the physical being (outer being), it remains ignorant. That is why the yoga of the body-cells is indispensable. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/25-february-1967#p3,p4</ref>
Thus Every gleam of aspiration is always the expression of a psychic influence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p27</ref>
==How is Aspiration Different from Desire?==
Aspiration is not mixed with any interested and egoistic calculation. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/aspiration#p2</ref>
In aspiration there is an unselfish flame which is not present in desire. True aspiration does not come from the head; even when it is formulated by a thought, it springs up like a flame from the heart. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/22-february-1951#p19,p20</ref>
=Why is Aspiration Important?=
Surely one could not believe that sadhana [or any work] could be done without facing some difficulties. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/face-and-overcome-difficulties#p13</ref>
The difficulties are always due to a resistance…resistance. Keeping steady of 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>
Every gleam of aspiration is always the expression of a psychic influence. Without the presence of the psychic, without the psychic influence, there would never be any sense of progress or any will for progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p28</ref>
Every gleam of aspiration is always the expression of a psychic influence. Without the presence of the psychic, without the psychic influence, there would never be any sense of progress or any will for progress. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p28</ref>
You will become the man you want to be and the higher your ideal and your aspiration, the higher will be your realisation, but you must keep a firm resolution and never forget your true aim in life. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p3</ref>
=How To to Aspire?=
The flame of the will and the flame of humility are needed. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/3-june-1953#p29,p30</ref>
By doing work with a simple and peaceful heart and a quiet mind, the aspiration will come gradually according to the need. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/difficulties-in-work#p33</ref>
Each time that you discover in yourself something that denies or resists, throw it into the flame of Agni, which is the fire of aspiration. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/19-may-1967#p2</ref>
The voice that says, “You shall not succeed and it is no use trying” do not listen to these suggestions. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/asceticism-and-the-integral-yoga#p29</ref>
In a great aspiration, if you can put yourself into contact with something higher, some influence of your psychic being or some light from above, and if you can manage to put this in touch with these lower movements…movements. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/22-september-1954#p16,p17,p18,p19</ref>
Keep your aspiration steady and be patient in your endeavour—and you are sure of success. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/steady-effort#p4 </ref>
== Difficulties in Aspiration==
The more one-pointed the aspiration the swifter the progress. The difficulty comes when either the vital with its desires or the physical with its past habitual movements comes in…in. If one keeps the will fixed even in these barren periods, they pass and after their passage a greater force of aspiration and experience becomes possible. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/sabcl/23/basic-requisites-of-the-path-iii#p3</ref>
Try to be less and less selfish, but not in the sense of becoming nice to other people or forgetting yourself, not that: have less and less the feeling that you are a person, a separate entity, something existing in itself, isolated from the rest. Then that aspiration, that need for the light is experienced. But that moment should be absolutely sincere and as integral as possible <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/20-may-1953#p23,p26</ref>
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