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
Category: daily quote
24 May
Every day
You can be true to yourself
A little more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
23 May
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
21 May
“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
20 May
“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
19 May
“We must not allow our past to torment and destroy the peace of our heart. Our present good and divine actions can easily counteract our bad and undivine actions of the past. If sin has the power to make us weep, meditation has undoubtedly the power to give us joy, to endow us with the divine Wisdom.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971
18 May
“What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a free access to the Divine.”
Sri Chinmoy, Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India’s Soul, Agni Press, 1971
17 May
Sweetness-fulfilment
Shall dawn on your eyes
If you can empty your mind
Of all complaints.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
16 May
God does not want you to suffer
From a guilt-stricken conscience.
He wants you to forgive and forget
Your past
Once and for all
And begin a new life
With a new promise-dawn.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
15 May
“God is here where I am,
But my mind tells me
That He is elsewhere.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
14 May
If you deliberately keep teeming problems
Locked inside your mind,
What can your poor soul
And your poor heart
Do for you?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
17 Jan
My morning begins
With the hope of enjoying
The exquisite beauty of God the creation.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
16 Jan
My morning begins
By invoking, obeying and satisfying
God the Creator.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
15 Jan
My morning begins
By washing, adorning and treasuring
God’s Forgiveness-Feet.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
14 Jan
My morning begins
By energising my body,
Commanding my vital,
Directing my mind,
Feeding my heart
And serving my soul.
Sri Chinmoy, My morning begins, Agni Press, 1996
13 Jan
“My morning begins
With the thrill
Of my God-fulfilment-determination.”
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 31
May the beauty of the New Year
Beautify my heart.
May the purity of the New Year
Purify my mind.
May the simplicity of the New Year
Simplify my vital.
May the intensity of the New Year
Intensify my body.
May the responsibility of the New Year
Glorify my life.
May only the divinity of the New Year
Fully satisfy me.
Beautify my heart.
May the purity of the New Year
Purify my mind.
May the simplicity of the New Year
Simplify my vital.
May the intensity of the New Year
Intensify my body.
May the responsibility of the New Year
Glorify my life.
May only the divinity of the New Year
Fully satisfy me.
Sri Chinmoy, My sweet Father-Lord, where are you?, Agni Press, 1999
Dec 30
You are not happy
And you will never be happy
Because you do not lose yourself
Enough to find yourself —
I mean your true self.
And you will never be happy
Because you do not lose yourself
Enough to find yourself —
I mean your true self.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 82, Agni Press, 1983
Dec 29
Whatever
Our aspiration gives us
Is infinitely generous
And eternally free.
Our aspiration gives us
Is infinitely generous
And eternally free.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 200, Agni Press, 1994
Dec 28
The friendship
That is founded upon self-giving
Even death cannot sever.
That is founded upon self-giving
Even death cannot sever.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 259, Agni Press, 1998
Dec 27
If you have a plethora of enthusiasm
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 261,
Throughout,
Then eventually you are bound to win
In your spiritual life.
Dec 26
God’s final Decision:
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 261, Agni Press, 1998
He will never end the world,
No matter how bad the world becomes.
Dec 25
The Christ told the Truth. The Truth existed before. The Christ became the Truth. Hence the Truth lives and breathes on earth.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Agni Press, 1970
Dec 24
Jesus was great.
Greater was His mercy.
Greatest was His sacrifice.
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 23
Tolerance
Is a secret and sacred way
To enrich our human life.
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 22
A vice does not remain a vice
When I am absolutely determined
To transform it into a virtue.
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 21
What you need is
Determination-fire.
Uneasiness, unwillingness and unreadiness
Will all surrender
To the beauty and fragrance
Of determination.
Dec 20
What do we gain
By interfering?
We gain nothing.
We just become a victim
Of our own stupidity.
By interfering?
We gain nothing.
We just become a victim
Of our own stupidity.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202, Agni Press, 1994
Dec 19
O humanity,
I do not want to be
Even one step above you.
I want to be
On the same footing,
Not only to make you happy
But also to make myself really happy.
I do not want to be
Even one step above you.
I want to be
On the same footing,
Not only to make you happy
But also to make myself really happy.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202, Agni Press, 1994
Dec 18
Be wise!
You must overcome
All your difficulties,
Not try to escape from them,
For there is no such thing
As escape.
You must overcome
All your difficulties,
Not try to escape from them,
For there is no such thing
As escape.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202, Agni Press, 1994