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NEVER WORRY ABOUT DIFFICULTIES
Never worry. Do with sincerity all you do and leave the results to the Divine’s care.
Let us live each day without anxiety. Why worry beforehand about something that will probably never happen?
Anxiety is a lack of confidence in the Divine’s Grace, the unmistakable sign that the consecration is not complete and perfect.
Don’t foresee difficulties ― it does not help to surmount them and helps them to come. 5 August 1932 It is better not to worry about progress, because worrying only hinders the advance. It is better to open in all trust and simplicity to the divine help and to have faith in the Victory.
Live in the consciousness of the Eternal and you will have no more worry. Page ― 239 My nature appears childish to me!
One must not attach too much importance to these little things. What is important is always to keep in view the ideal that one wants to realise and always to try one’s best to realise it. 6 April 1934 Yes, after all, these small superficial things are of very little importance if compared to the mission we have to fulfil upon earth. 29 September 1937 We must always keep in mind the big ideal and work that is to be achieved so that we should not give too much importance to small details, trifles that must not draw our attention; let them come, let them go like small clouds in the sky, which do not affect the fine weather.
Do not attach undue importance to unimportant things.
We must be freed from all care for contingencies, we must be delivered from the ordinary outlook on things. 25 November 1954 Never think of a difficulty ― you give it strength. 14 April 1958 Page ― 240 Do not concentrate on an obstacle; that only strengthens it.
If you go on thinking of the trouble, it will go on increasing. If you concentrate upon it, it will swell up, it will think that it is being welcomed. But if you don’t pay any attention, it will lose interest in you and go away.
The best remedy is to stop thinking of yourself and your defects and difficulties. Let us think only of the big work to be done, the ideal that Sri Aurobindo has given us to realise. The work and NOT how we do it. I will help. 5 June 1961 Forget your difficulties. Think only of being a more and more perfect instrument for the Divine to do His work and the Divine will conquer all your difficulties and transform you. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968 Forget your difficulties. Forget yourself… And the Lord will take care of your progress. With love and blessings. 5 March 1968 Divine Mother, I implore you to illumine and put a living faith in this dark area in me. Page — 241 Do not give any importance to that part and it will lose its strength and little by little even its existence. My love and blessings are always with you. 1971 Page — 242 |