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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When you want to make a progress, the difficulty you wished to conquer increases tenfold in importance and intensity in your consciousness. You have only to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. That is all; it will pass away.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> <ref> The Mother. (2003). Face and Overcome Difficulties. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Words of the mother 2''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;">http://incarnateword.in/cwm/14/face-and-overcome-difficulties#p21 </ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">and you will conquer. You can be sure that my help, force and blessings are always with you.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">One must </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">till the result comes and if one </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseveres</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">the result is bound to come.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><ref> Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Dealing with Hostile Attacks. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Letters on yoga 4''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;"> http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/dealing-with-hostile-attacks#p53 </ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">without being discouraged, the freedom will come.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> <ref> Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Ego and Its Forms. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Letters on yoga 4''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/ego-and-its-forms#p42 </ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"><nowiki>; there is no reason for giving up. Let no uprising of difficulties discourage you. At the end there is victory and lasting peace.</nowiki></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">If there are always forces around which are concerned to depress and discourage, there are always forces above and around us which we can draw upon,—draw into ourselves to restore, to fill up again with strength and faith and joy and the power that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseveres</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">and conquers</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> <ref> Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Sleep. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Letters on yoga 4''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p75 </ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">However heavy and tedious the resistance you have to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">till you have got the Peace, Knowledge, Force down there in place of the inertia.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">What is needed is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">—</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">to go on without discouragement, recognising that the process of the nature and the action of the Mother's force is working through the difficulty even and will do all that is needed.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> <ref> Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Time and Change of the Nature. In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Letters on yoga 4''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/time-and-change-of-the-nature#p7 </ref> </span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Face all these things [inner disturbances] quietly and firmly with </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">in the endeavour of the sadhana. Trust firmly in the Divine Grace and the Divine Grace will not fail you.</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">It is a long and meticulous work that requires much </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">, but the result is worth the trouble, for it brings not only mastery but also the possibility of the transformation and illumination of the consciousness.</span>
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;"> <ref> The Mother. (2003). 28 August 1969. In </span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;">''Some answers from the mother''</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/28-august-1969#p5 </ref> </span>
= Practice Perseverance with Patience =