Win Your Little Victories

If through an effort of inner consciousness and knowledge, youcan truly overcome in yourself a desire, that is to say, dissolve andabolish it, and if through inner goodwill, through consciousnesslight, knowledge, you are able to dissolve the desire, you will be,first of all in yourself personally, a hundred times happier than ifyou had satisfied this desire, and then it will have a marvellouseffect. It will have a repurcussion in the world of which you haveno idea. It will spread forth. For the vibrations you have createdwill continue to spread. These things grow larger like the snow-ball.The victory you win in your character, however small it be, isone which can be gained in the whole world... If you really want to do something good, the best thing you cando is to win your small victories in all sincerity, one after another,and thus you will do for the world the maximum you are able to.

The Mother : The Sunlit Path p.64