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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 Persevere. 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. <ref> The Mother. (2003). 17 February 1954. In ''Questions and answers (1954)''. 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><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;"> <ref> The Mother. (2003). 30 March 1955.</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 (1955)''</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">. </span> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/30-march-1955#p22 </ref></span>
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000;">Whatever you do, never forget the goal which you have set before you. There is nothing great or small once you have set out on this great discovery; all things are equally important and can either hasten or delay its success. Thus before you eat, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the food you are about to eat may bring your body the substance it needs to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and give it the energy for persistence and </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 effort.</span>