The right advice:
Think of others first
Before you think of yourself.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
Daily Poem
15 August
The aspiring heart radiates
Only one thing:
Happiness.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
14 August
Always be
A little more soulful
Than you thought you could be.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
13 August
As my mistakes are endless,
Even so, God’s Forgiveness
Is infinite and eternal.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
12 August
Life is a game that is played
By the heart’s tears
And the soul’s smiles.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
11 August
Each time we smile
From our hearts,
God blesses us
With tremendous Pride.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
10 August
Have faith in God.
All your earth-suffering-stories
Will eventually fade away.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
9 August
The inner world
Not only needs
But also loves
The outer harmony.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
8 August
“There exists only one goal that is Truth, but this goal is expressed and at the same time is sought in different forms.”
Sri Chinmoy, Earth’s cry meets Heaven’s smile, part 3, Agni Press, 1978
7 August
“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.”
Sri Chinmoy, Lifting Up The World With a Oneness-Heart, Agni Press, 1988
6 August
When the soul guides us,
We are safe,
For the soul receives guidance
Directly from God.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
5 August
Meditation has the capacity
To transform ignorance-night
Into wisdom-light.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
4 August
Circumstances
Cannot change man’s life.
His attitude
Can and does.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 168, Agni Press, 1992
3 August
We need only two things:
Our love of God
And God’s Love for us.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007
2 August
My greatness does not last;
My goodness does.
My goodness is God’s Joy,
God’s Pride and plus.
Sri Chinmoy, My God-Hunger-Cry, Agni Press, 2009
1 August
To see and love
The Eye of golden Truth,
The seeker needs
A heart of fountain-ruth.
Sri Chinmoy, My God-Hunger-Cry, Agni Press, 2009
15 June
“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
14 June
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
13 June
God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
28 February
Just be yourself.
Lo, God is running
Towards you.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 23, Agni Press, 2002
23 Feb
“Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.”
9 Feb
“I have two
Most significant friends:
My soul
And my soul’s unfinished task.”
7 Feb
“Beauty divine sings
Only for the illumining soul
And the self-giving heart.”
25 November
You have lost nothing in losing your outer capacities and achievements. Simplicity lost, something is lost. Sincerity lost, much is lost. Purity lost, more is lost. Humility lost, your entire inner world is lost.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
18 November
A spiritual life means:
It is now
Or never.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
3 November
Intelligence does not know
When and how it becomes
Belligerence at times.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
2 November
Today’s impossible achievements
Tomorrow may appear
As inevitability.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
1 November
O my mind,
You yourself are empty of peace.
How do you dare to bring about
World-peace?
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
10 August
It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.
Sri Chinmoy, AUM — Vol. 1, No. 6, 27 June 1974, Vishma Press, 1974
30 March
Purity awakens the real in me:
Oneness.
Humility strengthens the real in me:
Perfection.
Gratitude enlightens the real in me:
Satisfaction.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981