Yes, this inevitable need. Nothing else counts. That's everything. Only that.
And so, after all, one does not care a rap for obstacles and difficulties. What can that do to you?… It does not count. One laughs at time also. What does it matter to you if it takes long? For a much longer time you will have the joy of aspiration, of consecration, of self-giving.
For this is the one true joy. And this joy fades away when there is something egoistic, and because there is a demand which one calls a need – which is mixed in the consecration. Otherwise the joy never disappears.
This is the first thing one obtains, and the last one realises. And it is the sign of Victory.
So long as you cannot be in joy, a constant, calm, peaceful, luminous, invariable joy, well, it means that you have still to work to purify yourself, and sometimes work hard. But this is the sign.
