Category: daily quote

“Divine surrender is the surrender that we make to our own highest part. Each individual has two realities: the higher reality and the lower reality. The lower reality is still unlit, obscure, impure; whereas the higher reality is all divine, all perfection. So we consciously try to bring our lower reality into the higher one for its illumination. This surrender is not made to somebody else, to a third person. No, this surrender is made to one’s own highest self.”

Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992

“If I cannot find peace within myself,
How can I offer even an iota of peace
 To humanity?”

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003

Peace means joy;
Joy means peace.
Peace and joy can never
Be separated.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 16, Agni Press, 1999

“A new year is a new life. A new life is a new second. A new second is a new opportunity. A new opportunity is a new blessing from the Infinite Supreme.”

Sri Chinmoy, Arise! Awake! Thoughts of a yogi, Frederick Fell, Inc., 1972

Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory.

Sri Chinmoy, Supreme, teach me how to surrender, 1975

“How can I be a better human being if I do not think of the Source? Who makes me good? Who makes me better? Who makes me best? Somebody who is infinitely better than I am, and that is God.”

Sri Chinmoy, Realisation-Soul and Manifestation-Goal, Agni Press, 1974

Do not be proud.
Do not be ashamed.
Go forward with humility
And courage.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 27, Agni Press, 2002

Life needs courage,
Courage invincible.
Heart needs oneness,
Oneness universal.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 23, Agni Press, 2004

Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 101, Agni Press, 1985

“When you have to defend yourself or protect yourself, try to use a higher weapon. If people say something and you retaliate on the same level, there will be no end to it.”

Sri Chinmoy, Flame-Waves, part 1, Agni Press, 1975

Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 101, Agni Press, 1985

In your outer life
If you long for peace,
Then in your inner life
You must become energy-action.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981

We must all try
To accumulate
God-serving capacities.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999

Fight! Fight again and again
To break down your mind’s
Unwillingness-wall!

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996

Life is given to each human being
For a very special purpose.
This secret each human being
Must discover for himself.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996

How can your heart find peace,
When you allow your mind
To roam everywhere?

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996

I am amazed to see
How my soul keeps God up-to-date
On everything in my life.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 227, Agni Press, 1996

We must embrace
The beauty, light and joy
 Of every moment.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 39, Agni Press, 2004

This moment I try to envelop
 The human in me.
The next moment I try to develop
 The divine in me.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001

Knowledge
Is a very, very tiny
 Mind-drop.

Wisdom
Is a mighty ocean.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 49, Agni Press, 2008

Why do you pay attention
 To the past?
The past is a dead elephant.
Why do you have to carry
 Such a huge, dead elephant?

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

I strongly feel that
The outer achievements
Are no match for
The inner achievements.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 41, Agni Press, 2004

When we are
Our eagerness-heart,
Nothing remains
Permanently impossible.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 10, Agni Press, 1998

For everything
There is an ideal time,
And that ideal time is now,
At this very moment.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 41, Agni Press, 2004

Every day
I take a dip
In my soul’s ecstasy-sea.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2001