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==By Progress==
''Q. With the touch of the divine Grace, how do difficulties become opportunities for progress?''Opportunities for progress? Yes! Well, this is something quite obvious. You have made a big mistake, you are in great difficulty: then, if you have faith, if you have trust in the divine Grace, if you really rely on It, you will suddenly realise that it is a lesson, that your difficulty or mistake is nothing else but a lesson and that it comes to teach you to find within yourself what needs to be changed, and with this help of the divine Grace you will discover in yourself what has to be changed. And you will change it. And so, from a difficulty you will have made great progress, taken a considerable leap forward. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-july-1954#p42-p43</ref>
''A:'' Opportunities for progress? Yes! Well, this is something quite obvious. You have made a big mistake, you are in great difficulty: then, if you have faith, if you have trust in the divine Grace, if you really rely on It, you will suddenly realise that it is a lesson, that your difficulty or mistake is nothing else but a lesson and that it comes to teach you to find within yourself what needs to be changed, and with this help of the divine Grace you will discover in yourself what has to be changed. And you will change it. And so, from a difficulty you will have made great progress, taken a considerable leap forward. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/21-july-1954#p42-p43</ref>
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The Grace is something that pushes you towards the goal to be attained. Do not try to judge it by your mind, you will not get anywhere, because it is something formidable which is not explained through human words or feelings. When the Grace acts, the result may or may not be pleasant―it takes no account of any human value, it may even be a catastrophe from the ordinary and superficial point of view. But it is always the best for the individual. It is a blow that the Divine sends so that progress may be made by leaps and bounds. The Grace is that which makes you march swiftly towards the realisation. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p23</ref>
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For those who have given themselves to the Divine each difficulty that confronts them is the assurance of a new progress and thus must be taken as a gift from the Grace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p17</ref>
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Later—much later—one day, looking back, we may see that everything that happened, even what seemed to us the worst, was a Divine Grace to make us advance on the way...<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/9-july-1958#p8</ref>
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All depends on what you want. If you want Yoga, take ''all'' that happens as the expression of the Divine Grace leading you towards your goal, and try to understand the lesson that circumstances give. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/the-divine-grace-and-difficulties#p15</ref>
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It is certain that for someone who has desires, when his desires are not satisfied, it is a sign that the Divine Grace is with him and wants, through experience, to make him progress rapidly, by teaching him that a willing and spontaneous surrender to the Divine Will is a much surer way to be happy in peace and light than the satisfaction of any desire. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-175#p5</ref> [Based on Aphorism 175 – Because a good man dies or fails and the evil live and triumph, is God therefore evil? I do not see the logic of the consequence. I must first be convinced that death and failure are evil; I sometimes think that when they come, they are our supreme momentary good. But we are the fools of our hearts and nerves and argue that what they do not like or desire, must of course be an evil! ]
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When the Grace acts on the individual, it gives to each the maximum position according to what he is and what he has realized.
And then, there is a super-grace, as it were, which works in a few exceptional cases, which places you not according to what you are but according to what you are to become, which means that the universal cosmic position is ahead of the individual's progress.
And it is then that you should keep silent and fall on your knees. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/july-2-1958#p14-p16</ref>
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Leave all care to the Divine's Grace, including your progress, and you will be in peace. <ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/trust-in-the-divine-grace-and-help#p23</ref>
==By Surrender==