daily quote – Page 15 – Sri Chinmoy's poetry

“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

26 Jan

“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

4 Jan

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

3 Jan

Eventually peace must
Pervade our outer life
And
Permeate our inner life.

2 Jan

“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

1 Jan

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

12 Dec

God has infinitely more hope
For our lives
Than we have.

11 Dec

“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

10 Dec

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

9 Dec

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

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

8 Dec

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

5 Dec

“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