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===As an Inner Barometer===
… the moment they [aspiration and surrender] are not total, you are no longer happy. You feel uneasy, very miserable, dejected, a bit unhappy…unhappy. ... This is the barometer! You may immediately tell yourself that an insincerity has crept in somewhere. It is very easy to know, you don't need to be very learned, for, as Sri Aurobindo has said.... One knows whether one is happy or unhappy, one knows whether one is content or discontented, one doesn't need to ask oneself, put complicated questions for this, one knows it!
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p77</ref>
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If [our surrender] is truly sincere, it becomes happy. So long as it is not—you may reverse the thing—so long as it is not happy, you may be sure it is not perfectly sincere; for if it is perfectly sincere, it is always happy. If it is not happy, it means that there is something which holds back, something which would like things to be otherwise, something that has a will of its own, a desire of its own, its own purpose and is not satisfied, and therefore is not completely surrendered, not sincere in its surrender. But if one is sincere in one's surrender, one is perfectly happy, automatically; rather, one automatically enjoys an ineffable happiness. Therefore, as long as this ineffable happiness is not there, it is a ''sure'' indication that you are not sincere, that there is something, some part of the being, larger or smaller, which is not sincere. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/7-july-1954#p57</ref>
===An Opportunity for Progress===
<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-sage#p21</ref>
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When one comes out of the depression and one's bad will, well, then one realises that there was an attack and that some progress had to be made, and that in spite of everything something within has made progress, that one has taken a step forward. Usually, hardly consciously, it is something which needs to progress but doesn't want to, and so takes this way; like a child who sulks, becomes low-spirited, sad, unhappy, misunderstood, abandoned, helpless; and then, refusing to collaborate…collaborate. ... It is specially in order to show that one is not satisfied that one becomes depressed. ...a kind of way of expressing one's dissatisfaction. "I am not happy about what you demand", but this means, "I am not happy. And I shall make you too see it, that I am not happy."
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/12-january-1955#p18</ref>
...it is to this that the emerging consciousness in Matter awakes, first, to its ignorance of the world in which it lives and which it has to know and master in order to be happy, secondly, to the ultimate barrenness and limitation of this knowledge, to the meagreness and insecurity of the power and happiness it brings and to the awareness of an infinite consciousness, knowledge, true being in which alone is to be found a victorious and infinite happiness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-knot-of-matter#p9</ref>
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You have a special aim, a special mission, a special realisation which is your very own, each one individually, and you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realisation perfect… perfect. ...Once you have understood this, many worries come to an end and you are very happy, very happy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/17-february-1951#p23</ref>
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If our nature is fixed in what it is, what it has already become, then no perfection, no real and enduring happiness is possible in earthly life.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-divine-life#p23</ref>
But for the community to be happy it is necessary that this discipline should be determined by someone or by those who have the greatest broadness of mind and, if possible, by him or by those who are conscious of the Divine Presence and are surrendered to that.
For the earth to be happy, power should be in the hands of those alone who are conscious of the Divine Will. But this is impossible at the moment because the number of those who are ''truly''conscious of the Divine Will is negligible and these have necessarily no ambition. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/organisation-and-work#p110,p111</ref>
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Only when egoism dies and God in man governs his own human universality, can this earth support a happy and contented race of beings.