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Progressive Perfection


        The first condition is not to have one’s own personal interest as
        a goal.
            The first qualities needed are boldness, courage and persever-
        ance.
            And then to be conscious that one knows nothing compared
        to what one ought to know, that one can do nothing compared
        to what one ought to do, that one is nothing compared to what
        one ought to be.
            One must have an invariable will to acquire what is lacking in
        one’s nature, to know what one does not yet know, to be able to
        do what one is not yet able to do.
            One  must  constantly  progress  in  the  light  and  peace  that
        come from the absence of personal desires.
            One could take as a programme:
            “Always better. Forward!”
            And to have only one goal: to know the Divine in order to be
        able to manifest Him.
            Persevere, and what you cannot do today you will be able to
        do tomorrow.
                                                        CWM 16: 430
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        And it is there we have the solution of the problem. You can at
        every minute make the gift of your will in an aspiration — and an
        aspiration which formulates itself very simply, not just “Lord, Thy
        will be done”, but “Grant that I may do as well as I can the best
        thing to do.”
            You may not know at every moment what is the best thing to
        do or how to do it, but you can place your will at the disposal of
        the Divine to do the best possible, the best thing possible.
            You will see it will have marvellous results. Do this with con-
        sciousness, sincerity and perseverance, and you will find yourself


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