Encouragement from Sri Aurobindo

“In the Yoga as in life it is the man [the human] who persists unwearied to the last in the face of every defeat and disillusionment and of all confronting, hostile and contradicting events and powers who conquers in the end and finds his [their] faith justified because to the soul and Shakti [Divine's power imaged as the Universal Mother] in man [the human] nothing is impossible.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 773

“But outward circumstances are only a cover for the real workings of the spirit, and if it is the spirit that has been touched, the inward soul that has received the call, the śraddhā [Sanskrit word meaning faith] will remain firm and resist all attempts to defeat or slay it.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 774

“The Divine holds our hand through all and if he [the Divine] seems to let us fall, it is only to raise us higher.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 775

“Man [The human] is given faith in himself [themself], his [their] ideas and his [their] powers that he [they] may work and create and rise to greater things and in the end bring his [their] strength as a worthy offering to the altar of the Spirit.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 779

“A present incapacity, however heavy may seem its pressure, is only a trial of faith and a temporary difficulty and to yield to the sense of inability is for the seeker of the integral Yoga a non-sense, for his [their] object is a development of a perfection that is there already, latent in the being, because man [the human] carries the seed of the divine life in himself [themself], in his [their] own spirit, the possibility of success is involved and implied in the effort and victory is assured because behind is the call and guidance of an omnipotent power.” Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, 780