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age to make even a very tiny part of the being admit that “Ah,
well, yes, I am mistaken, I should not be like that, and I should
not do that and should not feel that, yes, it is a mistake”, if you
manage to make it admit this, at first, as I said just now, it begins
by hurting you very much, but when you hold on firmly, until this is
admitted, immediately it is open — it is open and strangely a flood
of light enters, and then you feel so glad afterwards, so happy that
you ask yourself, “Why, was I foolish enough to resist so long?”

CWM 14: 148; 6: 117 The Mother

Progress

The first condition of inner progress is to recognise whatever is
or has been a wrong movement in any part of the nature, — wrong
idea, wrong feeling, wrong speech, wrong action, — and by wrong is
meant what departs from the truth, from the higher consciousness
and higher self, from the way of the Divine. Once recognised it is
admitted, not glossed over or defended, — and it is offered to the
Divine for the Light and Grace to descend and substitute for it the
right movement of the true Consciousness.
CWSA 29: 131 Sri Aurobindo

Progress is the sign of the divine influence in creation.
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The purpose of earthly life is progress. If you stop progressing you
will die. Every moment that you spend without progressing is one
step closer to your grave.
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From the moment you are satisfied and aspire no longer, you be-
gin to die. Life is movement, life is effort; it is marching forward,
climbing towards future revelations and realisations. Nothing is
more dangerous than wanting to rest.
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