to get rid of them – and if one fixes a given time, they are all the more resistant in the hope of creating disappointment and discouragement by the failure to do it in the given time.Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume IV - Part 2
Fragment ID: 14066
Of course, they [the ego and the vital] always resist a pressure to get rid of them – and if one fixes a given time, they are all the more resistant in the hope of creating disappointment and discouragement by the failure to do it in the given time.