If you can wait
With the patience of the wise,
Then there is nothing
That you will not be able to achieve
In this lifetime.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
If you can wait
With the patience of the wise,
Then there is nothing
That you will not be able to achieve
In this lifetime.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
You can thrive
In the face of adversity
If you have ceaseless faith in yourself
And if you are ready to play the role
Of the hero-warrior
At every moment of your life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
How I wish I could have
Only one flower
In my heart-garden:
Gratitude and nothing else.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
If you cannot love the unlovable,
Then you are not worthy
To become
God’s supremely chosen instrument.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
I shall no more allow
World-criticism
To destroy the beauty
Of my flower-heart-home.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
The heart that loves
Unites
All and sundry.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
I am all gratitude
To earth
For its boundless patience.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
We may not know where we came from,
But we do know that we are heading
Towards Heaven.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Listen only to your soul.
Do not allow your vital and mind
To lord it over you
Any more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Those who offer themselves
For the betterment of the world
Are God’s chosen champions
In the inner world.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Inner faith
Does have the capacity
To change
The outer mind’s course.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Humility, my humility,
You are my Heaven-climbing
Staircase.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 19
Since you do not play
The foul game
Of blind negatives,
Yours will be the Consciousness-delight,
Here, there and
All-where.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
Now that I have
Become an explorer,
I shall explore
A new land:
The heart-land.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
It is quite amazing
That my mind
Has started listening
To my heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
So far I have learnt
Only comfort,
But from now on I shall learn
Only effort, inner and outer.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
I must love
The journey itself
Without caring for the goal.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Do not expect the world
To applaud you.
The right Person to applaud you
Is God Himself.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
This world
Is unimaginably beautiful
Except to the self-styled critics.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Alas, what are we doing?
We are trying to conceal ourselves
From our universal selves!
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
One wrong thought
Can ruin everything
At the journey’s start.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Clear the mind
Of all its
Discouraging thoughts.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
My aim
Is to live the life
Of a genuine self-giver.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Because my heart
Is spiritual,
My life belongs to all.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
My soul does not eclipse
Anybody’s sun-beauty.
On the contrary,
It helps others to shine their brightest.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
The sun of Infinity’s Light
Is inside my heart.
I must bring it to the fore
For the transformation of the world.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Humility, indeed,
Is infinitely greater
Than man-considered greatness.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
We must bring down Heaven
And feel its divine Beauty
And supreme Fragrance
Here on earth.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Gratitude
Is an unimaginable joy
For both humanity
And Divinity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Ego is illusion, delusion,
Self-aggrandisement
And many things more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004