Chapter 66Will and Perseverance

WILL Will: power of consciousness turned towards effectuation.

* A persevering will surmounts all obstacles.

* One must have an unvarying will to acquire what one does not have in one’s nature, to know what one does not yet know, to be able to do what one cannot yet do.

One must progress constantly in the light and the peace which come from the absence of personal desire.

If one has a strong will, he has only to orient it properly; if he has no will, he has first of all to build one for himself, which always takes long and is sometimes difficult.

22 March 1934

* Even the most beautiful thoughts will not make us progress unless we have a constant will for them to be expressed in us through nobler feelings, more exact sensations and better actions.

18 November 1951

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My lower nature continues to do the same stupid things. You alone can change it. What are Your conditions?

1) to be convinced that you can change. 2) to will to change without accepting the excuses of the lower

nature.