It is to the sincerity of your aspiration that the Love answers spontaneously.

 20 October 1934

Let your aspiration leap forward, pure and straight, towards the supreme consciousness which is all joy and all beatitude.

We must aspire with all our being for the manifestation to come soon and complete.

                                                                                                                                                                     2 February 1935

Prayer of Aspiration

Let us go to sleep with a prayer and wake with an aspiration for the New and Perfect Creation.

The urge of aspiration: nothing is too high, nothing too far for its insatiable ardour.

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It never does any harm to express an aspiration ― that gives force to it.

Aspiration is always good, and if some demand is mixed up with it, you can be sure that it will not be granted.

Go on aspiring and the necessary progress is bound to come.

 7 April 1954

Daily we must aspire to conquer all mistakes, all obscurities, all ignorances.

                                                                                                                                                                         15 April 1954

We must always aspire to be free from all ignorance and to have a true faith.

 29 April 1954

A constant aspiration conquers all defects.

                                                                                                                                                                          21 May 1954

Day after day our aspiration will grow and our faith will intensify.

 23 May 1954

When the aspiration is awake, each day brings us nearer to the goal.

 15 July 1954

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Each one is responsible only for the sincerity of his aspiration.

 17 July 1954

Our aspiration rises always identical, supported by a concentrated will.

 1 November 1954

All is mute in the being, but in the bosom of the silence burns the lamp that can never be extinguished, the fire of an ardent aspiration to know and to live integrally the Divine.

 6 November 1954

The flame of the aspiration must be so straight and so ardent that no obstacle can dissolve it.

 7 November 1954

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 Beyond words, above thoughts the flame of an intense aspiration must always burn, steady and bright.

My love and blessings are with you.

 5 March 1955

In the silence of the heart burns the steady fire of aspiration.

Keep the fire burning steadily and wait quietly for the sure result.

Flame of aspiration: a flame which illumines but never burns.

An integral and exclusive aspiration is sure to bring the Divine's response.  

             31 August 1957

(Message for the “Home of Progress”, an Ashram hostel)        

If in man the seed of aspiration is watered with the true spirituality then he will grow into Divinity.

 24 April 1966

As usual I will tell you to be quiet and peaceful.

Our only aspiration must be for spiritual progress. It is only for that that we must pray.

With love and blessings.

 12 December 1967  

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Increase steadily your own aspiration. Try to perfect your consecration to the Divine and your life will be arranged for you.

             8 June 1969

Any suggestion?

About what?

About sadhana.

Patient aspiration.

 7 June 1970

What is needed of me that I may not fail to progress as I should?

A constant and integral aspiration.

 3 August 1970

How can I have more and more faith and calm, Mother?

Aspiration and will.

Mental aspiration: its expression is clear and precise and very reasonable.

True aspiration is not a movement of the mind but of the psychic.

                                                                                                                                                                           22 May 1971  

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Psychic aspiration: constant, regular, organised, gentle and patient at the same time, resists all opposition, overcomes all difficulties.

Spiritual aspiration rises like an arrow caring for neither obstacles nor laggards.

Let the sun of aspiration dissolve the clouds of egoism.

(Message for a seminar organised by the Maharastra Sri Aurobindo Centenary Celebration Committee)

Be sincere in your aspiration for progress.

Love and blessings.

                                                                                                                                                                                    1972  

ASPIRATION, CALLING AND PULLING

To aspire and to call for help are quite indispensable.

Mother, what is the difference between an ardent aspiration and a pulling down of force?

It is the vital that pulls down and the psychic that aspires.

 20 February 1973

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There is certainly a great difference between calling and pulling ― you can and must always call for help and the rest ― the answer will be proportionate to your capacity of reception and assimilation. Pulling is a selfish movement that may bring down forces quite disproportionate to your capacities and thus are harmful.  

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