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Persevere without being discouraged, the freedom will come. <ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Ego and Its Forms. In "Letters on yoga 4". http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/ego-and-its-forms#p42 </ref>
Persevere<ref>there is no reason for giving up. Let no uprising of difficulties discourage you. At the end there is victory and lasting peace.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). The Psychic Being and Its Role in Sadhana. In "Letters on yoga 3". http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/the-psychic-being-and-its-role-in-sadhana#p15 </ref>
No victory can be won without a fixed fidelity to the aim and a long effort. There is no other way than to Persevere . <ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Human Relations and the Spiritual Life. In "Letters on yoga 4" http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/human-relations-and-the-spiritual-life#p39 </ref>
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 perseveres and conquers . <ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Sleep. In "Letters on yoga 4".http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/sleep#p75 </ref>
However heavy and tedious the resistance you have to Persevere till you have got the Peace, Knowledge, Force down there in place of the inertia. <ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Difficulties of the Physical Nature. In "Letters on yoga 4". http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p38 </ref>
It is only by perseverance in aspiration or will that this difficulty can disappear.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2014). Difficulties of the Physical Nature. In "Letters on yoga 4". http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/difficulties-of-the-physical-nature#p65 </ref>
What is needed is perseverance—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.