If I do not love myself
In a divine way,
Then my spiritual life
Will be a total failure.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
If I do not love myself
In a divine way,
Then my spiritual life
Will be a total failure.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Finally
I have cast aside
My ego-pride.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Forgiveness and happiness
Shall forever remain
Inseparable.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
“You can obtain purity by constantly feeling that you are a three-year-old child, or you can feel that you are a flower, a beautiful flower with fragrance, and nothing else. In this way you can obtain purity.”
Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 8, Agni Press, 1976
I take each failure as an opportunity
To increase my surrender
And destroy my frustration-life.
I take each success as an opportunity
To bring forward my gratitude-heart
And totally destroy my ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
“Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.”
“I have two
Most significant friends:
My soul
And my soul’s unfinished task.”
“Beauty divine sings
Only for the illumining soul
And the self-giving heart.”
My Lord,
Do teach me the message
Of universal love.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 34, Agni Press, 2003
Each peace-step of a human being
Is undoubtedly a progress-march
Towards God’s Satisfaction-Smile.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
We can fulfil our destiny
Only by serving
And loving humanity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
The power of humility
Has the capacity to simplify
The mind’s complicated ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
God can heal any suffering.
God can present Himself
In any uninspiring situation.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
“The tree of life teaches us how to search desperately for true love, divine love and immortal love.”
Sri Chinmoy, Tree of life, Jharna-Kala Card Co., 1997
“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”
Sri Chinmoy, Songs of the Soul, Agni Press, 1971
Our God-faith
Solves
All our life-problems.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
We must climb
Our life’s perfection-stairway
Slowly, steadily and unerringly.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
Holiness
Is good.
Selflessness
Is infinitely better.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
Self-offering
Is an unparalleled opportunity
To claim all as one’s very own.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
We are searching everywhere
For peace,
Which is already
Deep within us.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22
Do you not think
That you lose so much
Of your precious time
By thinking and thinking
And thinking of others?
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
Unlike the ordinary life,
In the spiritual life
Every moment counts;
Every moment is extremely valuable.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
The time to be really happy
Is now,
Here at the very place
Where you are.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
The world belongs
To the world-lovers
And not
To the world-preachers.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
Every day
You can be true to yourself
A little more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
The music of the heart
Begins
Where the words of the mind
Stop.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
“How is it that a man does not know himself, something which ought to be the easiest of all his endeavours? He does not know himself precisely because he identifies himself with the ego and not with his real Self.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul, Agni Press, 1971
“No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge. Yet it is not separate from our earthly existence. If we open the right avenues within, this peace can be felt here and now.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971