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= Practice Perseverance with Patience =
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">There is only one thing that's important: that is a sincere and persistent will, for these things don't happen in a twinkling. So one must </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Persevere</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. When someone feels that he is not advancing, he must not get discouraged; he must try to find out what it is in the nature that is opposing, and then make the necessary progress. And suddenly one goes forward.</span><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;"> <ref> The Mother. (2003). 17 February 1954.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">In </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''Questions and answers (1954)''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">''http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-february-1954#p6 </ref>'</span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">When one wants to change something of the material life, whether the character or the functioning of the organs or habits, one must have an unfaltering </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">perseverance</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">, be ready to begin again a hundred times the same thing with the same intensity with which one did it the first time and as though one had never done it before.</span>