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The Value of Aspiration

What you say is quite true. A simple, straight and sincere call
and aspiration from the heart is the one important thing and
more essential and effective than capacities. Also to get the
consciousness to turn inwards, not remain outward-going is of
great importance — to arrive at the inner call, the inner experi-
ence, the inner Presence.
The help you ask will be with you. Let the aspiration grow
and open the inner consciousness altogether.

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One has only to aspire sincerely and keep oneself as open
as possible to the Mother's Force. Then whatever difficulties
come, they will be overcome — it may take some time, but the
result is sure.
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One has to suppose that [the Mother's] force everywhere
around and call it in—if one feels it, so much the better, but
even otherwise if there is faith and power in the call, it can flow
in.
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One must rely on the Divine and yet do some enabling sad-
hana — the Divine gives the fruits, not by the measure of the
sadhana but by the measure of the soul and its aspiration, Also
worrying does no good —"I shall be this, I shall be that, what
shall I be?" Say "I am ready to be not what I want, but what the
Divine wants me to be" — all the rest should go on that base.

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I mean by the measure of the soul's sincerity a yearning after
the Divine and its aspiration towards the higher life.
CWSA 29:55-56 Sri Aurobindo

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