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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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