Category: Poem

You have given chance after chance
To so many human beings
To help you improve your life.
Can you not give God
Just one chance?

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993

Every day my heart sings
A new peace-song.
Every day my soul dances
A new peace-dance.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993

A gratitude-heart
Always takes very long strides
Towards God’s Compassion-Sea.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993

Each pure thought creates
A new heart-song
And a new life-story.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993

If you can wait
With the patience of the wise,
Then there is nothing
That you will not be able to achieve
In this lifetime.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993

You can thrive
In the face of adversity
If you have ceaseless faith in yourself
And if you are ready to play the role
Of the hero-warrior
At every moment of your life.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993

How I wish I could have
Only one flower
In my heart-garden:
Gratitude and nothing else.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9

If you cannot love the unlovable,
Then you are not worthy
To become
God’s supremely chosen instrument.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9

I shall no more allow
World-criticism
To destroy the beauty
Of my flower-heart-home.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9

The heart that loves
Unites
All and sundry.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9

I am all gratitude
To earth
For its boundless patience.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002

We may not know where we came from,
But we do know that we are heading
Towards Heaven.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002

Listen only to your soul.
Do not allow your vital and mind
To lord it over you
Any more.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002

Those who offer themselves
For the betterment of the world
Are God’s chosen champions
In the inner world.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002

Inner faith
Does have the capacity
To change
The outer mind’s course.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002

Humility, my humility,
You are my Heaven-climbing
Staircase.

– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 19

Since you do not play
The foul game
Of blind negatives,
Yours will be the Consciousness-delight,
Here, there and
All-where.

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

Now that I have
Become an explorer,
I shall explore
A new land:
The heart-land.

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

Just be yourself.
Lo, God is running
Towards you.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

Happiness and courage
Feed each other.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

Faith
Sings the song
Of self-transcendence.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

Do not be discouraged.
Give yourself a second chance.
You will succeed.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

The more we forgive,
The stronger we become.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

To change one’s life
Is to increase
The world-transformation-hopes.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002

O my heart,
Never allow
The doubting mind
To darken your door.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

A good thought
Changes everything it touches
For the better.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

God is extremely pleased
Even with my heart’s
Tinier than the tiniest
Gratitude-blossoms.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

In my life
Only one road
Is sure and sunlit:
My heart-road.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

The cradle of self-love
Is made of
Illusion and delusion.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002

In the inner world,
Only love-currency
Is valued.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002