Endurance is the capacity of bearing without depression.

Cheer up, all will be all right, if we know how to last and endure.

To know and be able to bear and endure, undoubtedly produces a firm and fixed joy.

The most important is a steady, quiet endurance that does not allow any upsetting or depression to interfere with your progress. The sincerity of the aspiration is the assurance of the victory.

A quiet endurance is the sure way to success.

 14 June 1954

The things we cannot realise today we shall be able to realise tomorrow. The only necessity is to endure.

 20 August 1954

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The victory is to the most enduring.

 6 September 1954

Endure and you will triumph. Victory goes to the most enduring.

And with the Grace and divine love nothing is impossible.

My force and love are with you.

At the end of the struggle there is Victory.

 7 January 1966

In silent endurance, one step forward towards victory with the help of eternal love.

Open to the Divine Grace and thou shalt endure.

PATIENCE 

Patience: indispensable for all realisation.

Patience: the capacity to wait steadily for the Realisation to come.

Accomplishment is without any doubt the fruit of patience.

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With patience one arrives always.

It is not in a day that one can overcome one's own nature. But with patience and enduring will the Victory is sure to come.

With patience any difficulty can be overcome.

 9 March 1934

Everything will come in its time; keep a confident patience and all will be all right.

 9 August 1934

With patience and perseverance all prayers get fulfilled.

 4 February 1938

With sincerity, make an effort for progress, and with patience, know how to await the result of your effort.

 21 October 1951

To know how to wait is to put Time on your side.

I worry myself over being exact and regular and punctual. If I ever miss being so, even a little, I get upset and feel that I must hurry all the more. In matters of the inner life also, I incline to do the same.  

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I think this tendency is to be discouraged.

Yes, it is not good to be impatient and agitated ― you must do everything peacefully and quietly without excessive haste.

If the mind remains quiet in all circumstances and happenings, patience will be more easily increased.

Yoga cannot be done in a hurry ― it needs many many years. If you are “pressed for time” it means that you have no intention of doing yoga ― is it so?

It is not the soul, but the ego and its pride that feel “defeat and humiliation”.

 10 November 1961

One goes much faster when he is not in a hurry.

To really move forward, one should feel, with complete confidence, that eternity lies before him.

 4 July 1962

Sweet Mother,

Too often the feeling of incapacity and of being far from You comes to discourage the will. I am tired of my way of living, of feeling ― and it seems to have no end.

To realise anything one must be patient. And the vaster and more important the realisation, the greater the patience must be.

Blessings.

 19 May 1968  

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Mother, when I write to You, there is always this "I"; I know that I have no right to write like this ― it is so egoistic. I don't know how to overcome this difficulty. I know that it is not a big difficulty, but it is like a little pebble which one stumbles over even though one sees it.

One must be patient and stubborn in order to reach the goal.

8 May 1971

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