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Her love is equally spread over all of them.

But to each one She gives according to his nature and receptivity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p23-p26</ref>

The Grace is equally for all. But each one receives it according to his sincerity. It does not depend on outward circumstances but on a sincere aspiration and openness. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p29</ref>

Fear stems from a sense of inferiority.

However, there is a way to be free from it: it is to have faith in the Divine Grace and to rely on It to protect you in all circumstances. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/12/students#p35-p36</ref>

Say―"I have received his Grace: I must be worthy of it", and then all will be well. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p27</ref>

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>

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>

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>

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>

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>

...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>

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>

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>

And then, if you become aware that it is only the Grace which can do that, that the situation in which you find yourself, from there the Grace alone can pull you out, can give you the solution and the strength to come out of it, then, quite naturally an intense aspiration awakes in you, a consciousness which is translated into an opening. If you call, aspire, and if you hope to get an answer, you will quite naturally open yourself to the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p32</ref>

It is quite true that it[A great wave (or sea) of calm and the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to allow the Power that has touched the consciousness to develop what has to be developed in the being—by keeping oneself open to it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p10</ref>

To practise Yoga implies the will to overcome all attachments and turn to the Divine alone. The principal thing in the Yoga is to trust in the Divine Grace at every step, to direct the thought continually to the Divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother's force can be felt working in the Adhara. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/32/the-mothers-grace#p9</ref>

Faith is certainly a gift given to us by the Divine Grace. It is like a door suddenly opening upon an eternal truth, through which we can see it, almost touch it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p4</ref>

The Grace is always there ready to act but you must let it work and not resist its action. The one condition required is faith. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p8</ref>

The Divine Grace is always with you and by your trust you allow its action to be effective. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p3</ref>

It is in proportion to our trust in the Divine that the Divine Grace can act for us and help. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4</ref>

On the other hand the belief in the Divine and the Grace and Yoga and the Guru etc. is not _a priori_, because it rests on a great mass of human experience which has been accumulating through the centuries and millenniums as well as the personal intuitive perception. Therefore it is an intuitive perception which has been confirmed by the experience of hundreds and thousands of those who have tested it before me. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/doubt-and-faith#p22</ref>

When we trust in the Divine's Grace we get an unfailing courage. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p12</ref>

The Grace will never fail us―such is the faith we must keep constantly in our heart. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p15</ref>

We must learn to rely only on the Divine Grace and to call for its help in all circumstances; then it will work out constant miracles. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p53</ref>

The Grace is infinite for him who sincerely trusts the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p1</ref>

The Grace and the help are always there for all who aspire for them and their power is limitless when received with faith and confidence. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p7</ref>

In the final analysis everything really depends on the Divine Grace and we should look at the future with confidence and serenity, progressing at the same time as quickly as we can. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p43</ref>

It is not that, but the soul's demand for a higher Truth or a higher life that is indispensable. Where that is, the Divine Grace whether believed in or not, will intervene. If you believe, that hastens and facilitates things; if you cannot yet believe, still the soul's aspiration will justify itself with whatever difficulty and struggle. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p22</ref>

It is a question only of aspiration, of believing in the divine Grace and letting the Divine work in you, not making a refusal. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-call-and-the-capacity#p26</ref>

To receive the divine grace, not only must one have a great aspiration, but also a sincere humility and an absolute trust. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p5</ref>

When one calls? I think so. Anyway, not exclusively and solely. But certainly, yes, if one has faith in the Grace and an aspiration and if one does what a little child would when it runs to its mother and says: "Mamma, give me this", if one calls with that simplicity, if one turns to the Grace and says "Give me this", I believe it listens. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/18-november-1953#p38-p39</ref>

The Grace is always with you; concentrate in your heart with a silent mind and you are sure also to receive the guidance and the help you aspire for. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p6</ref>

A state of Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes then the Grace itself acts. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p4</ref>

Gratitude: it is you who open all the closed doors and let the Grace which saves penetrate deeply. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p1</ref>

Yes, faith in the Grace always brings about its intervention. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p9</ref>

All depends on the intensity of the faith and the firmness of the right attitude. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/faith-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p4</ref>

The Grace is always there, eternally present and active, but Sri Aurobindo says that it is extremely difficult for us to be in a condition to receive it, keep it and make use of what it gives us. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/17-october-1960-1#p3</ref>

It is quite true that it [A great wave (or sea) of calm and the constant consciousness of a vast and luminous Reality] is a grace sent and the only return needed for such a grace is acceptance, gratitude and to allow the Power that has touched the consciousness to develop what has to be developed in the being—by keeping oneself open to it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/experiences-of-the-self-the-one-and-the-infinite#p10</ref>

Besides I have always seen that there has been really a long unobserved preparation before the Grace intervenes and, also, after it has intervened one has still to put in a good deal of work to keep and develop what one has got—as it is in all other things—until there is the complete siddhi. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p18</ref>

If one has within him faith in the divine grace, that the divine grace is watching over him, and that no matter what happens the divine grace is there, watching over him, one may keep this faith all one's life and always; and with this one can pass through all dangers, face all difficulties, and nothing stirs, for you have the faith and the divine grace is with you. It is an infinitely stronger, more conscious, more lasting force which does not depend upon the conditions of your physical build, does not depend upon anything except the divine grace alone, and hence it leans on the Truth and nothing can shake it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/7-october-1953#p26</ref>

It is not indispensable that the Grace should work in a way that the human mind can understand, it generally doesn't: it works in its own "mysterious" way. At first usually it works behind the veil, preparing things, not manifesting. Afterwards it may manifest, but the sadhak does not understand very well what is happening. Finally, when he is capable of it, he both feels and understands or at least begins to do so. Some feel and understand from the first or very early; but that is not the ordinary case. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p8</ref>

People are not aware of the workings of Grace except when there has been some danger, that is, when there has been the beginning of an accident or the accident has taken place and they have escaped it. Then they become aware. But never are they aware that if, for instance, a journey or anything whatever, passes without any accident, it is an infinitely higher Grace. That is, the harmony is established in such a way that nothing can happen. But that seems to them quite natural. When people are ill and get well quickly, they are full of gratitude; but never do they think of being grateful when they are well; and yet that is a much greater miracle! <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/23-december-1953#p52</ref>

When you are in a particular set of circumstances and certain events take place, these events often oppose your desire or what seems best to you, and often you happen to regret this and say to yourself, "Ah! how good it would have been if it were otherwise, if it had been like this or like that", for little things and big things.... Then years pass by, events are unfolded; you progress, become more conscious, understand better, and when you look back, you notice―first with astonishment, then later with a smile―that those very circumstances which seemed to you quite disastrous or unfavourable, were exactly the best thing that could have happened to you to make you progress as you should have. And if you are the least bit wise you tell yourself, "Truly, the divine Grace is infinite."

So, when this sort of thing has happened to you a number of times, you begin to understand that in spite of the blindness of man and deceptive appearances, the Grace is at work everywhere, so that at every moment it is the best possible thing that happens in the state the world is in at that moment. It is because our vision is limited or even because we are blinded by our own preferences that we cannot discern that things are like this.

But when one begins to see it, one enters upon a state of wonder which nothing can describe. For behind the appearances one perceives this Grace―infinite, wonderful, all-powerful―which knows all, organises all, arranges all, and leads us, whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, towards the supreme goal, that is, union with the Divine, the awareness of the Godhead and union with Him. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/8-august-1956#p42-p44</ref>

After all, one has not a ''right'' to call on the Divine to manifest himself; it can come only as a response to a spiritual or psychic state of consciousness or to a long course of sadhana rightly done; or, if it comes before that or without any apparent reason, it is a grace; but one cannot demand or compel grace; grace is something spontaneous which wells out from the Divine Consciousness as a free flower of its being. The bhakta looks for it, but he is ready to wait in perfect reliance, even if need be all his life, knowing that it will come, never varying in his love and surrender because it does not come now or soon. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p24</ref>

I have said also that the Grace ''can'' at any moment act suddenly, but over that one has no control, because it comes by an incalculable Will which sees things that the mind cannot see. It is precisely the reason why one should never despair,—that and also because no sincere aspiration to the Divine can fail in the end. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p22</ref>

Your thesis was, "Once I want God, God must manifest to me, come to me, at least give glimpses of himself to me, the real solid concrete experiences, not mere vague things which I can't understand or value. God's Grace must answer my call for it, whether I yet deserve it or not—or else there is no Grace." God's Grace may indeed do that in certain cases, but where does the "must" come in? If God must do it, it is no longer God's Grace, but God's duty or an obligation or a contract or a treaty. The Divine looks into the heart and removes the veil at the moment which he knows to be the right moment to do it. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/bhakti-yoga-and-vaishnavism#p12</ref>

"But whatever you ask for or whatever your effort, you must feel, even while trying your best, using knowledge or putting forth power that the result depends upon the Divine Grace." <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/5-april-1951#p12</ref>

The best possible way is to allow the Divine Grace to work in you, never to oppose it, never to be ungrateful and turn against it—but to follow it always to the goal of Light and Peace and unity and Ananda. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/the-divine-grace-and-guidance#p24</ref>

Let us give ourselves without reserve to the Divine, so best shall we receive the Divine Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p28</ref>

Gratitude: A loving recognition of the Grace received from the Divine. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/gratitude#p2-p3</ref>

And later—you must pay great attention to this (''Mother puts her finger on her lips'')—the Grace will answer you, the Grace will pull you out of the trouble, the Grace will give you the solution to your problem or will help you to get out of your difficulty. But once you are free from trouble and have come out of your difficulty, don't forget that it is the Grace which pulled you out, and don't think it is yourself. For this, indeed, is the important point. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/15-september-1954#p33</ref>

...if one can be filled with gratitude and thanksgiving for the divine Grace, it puts the finishing touch, and at each step one comes to see that things are exactly what they had to be and the best that could be. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/13-july-1955#p44</ref>

All discoveries are always graces—wonderful graces. When you discover that you can't do anything, when you discover that you are a fool, when you discover that you have no capacity, when you discover that you are so petty and mean and stupid, well... "Oh, Lord, I thank You so much, how good You are to show me all this!" And then, it's over. Because the minute you discover it, you say, "Now this is up to You. You will do what has to be done for all this to change." And the best part of it is that it does change! It does change. When you do like this (''gesture of offering to the Heights''), sincerely: "Oh, take it, take it, take it, rid me of it, let me be... only You"... It's wonderful. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/07/january-31-1966#p48-p49</ref>

Right use of the granted Grace: no deformation, no diminution, no exaggeration―a clear sincerity. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace#p30</ref>