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=What 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>.

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>

In works, aspiration towards Perfection is true spirituality. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/progress-and-perfection-in-work#p45</ref>

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>

Sincerity means that one is really in earnest in his aspiration and refuses all other will or impulse except the Divine’s. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/sincerity#p5</ref>

==Aspiration in the Different Parts of Being?==

Thus Every gleam of aspiration is always the expression of a psychic influence. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/1-march-1951#p27</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>

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>

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>

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. <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>

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>

==References==