Peace means satisfaction.
Alas, this world has everything
Save and except
Peace.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
Peace means satisfaction.
Alas, this world has everything
Save and except
Peace.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
When we pray and meditate,
We come to realise
That there is only one thing we need:
Peace.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
To see ourselves as God sees us
Shall forever remain
An impossible task.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
As millions of stars
Sing and dance together
In harmony,
Even so, our body,
Vital, mind and heart
Must sing and dance
In harmony.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
It matters not
How much we know
About God.
It matters only
How much we have given
To God.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
Go beyond the domain
Of the mind.
You will be able to shine
In the galaxy
Of happiness-stars.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
Difficult, but not impossible,
To dethrone
The proud ego-king-mind.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
The silence of meditation
Is
The expansion of a happiness
And fulness-heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999
There is no mind-hurricane
That cannot be silenced
By our heart’s
Soul-oneness-power.
“A heart of divine love
Will always go far beyond
Earth-bound limits.”
-Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 213, Agni Press, 1994
God is at once
Practical and spiritual,
So He wants us
To have a practical life
And
A spiritual heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 8, Agni Press, 1981
Fear is a limping thought.
Doubt is a blinding thought.
Courage is a galloping thought.
Faith is an illumining thought.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 8, Agni Press, 1981
“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