A problem is not a burden
But an opportunity
In disguise.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
Daily Poem
8 December
When you live in spirituality, aspiration is what you expect, but realisation is what you get. When you live in humanity, admiration is what you expect, but admonition is what you get.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
6 December
Keep your heart’s door open. You will become the purest man. Keep your ego’s door closed. You will become the surest man.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
5 December
If you find something nice
To say about humanity,
Then God will have everything nice
To say about you.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
4 December
Well done
Is infinitely more significant
Than well said.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
3 December
Be a little more compassionate
Than needed.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
2 December
I always say that beauty is soul-deep. Beauty in the outer world is the total transformation of one’s human nature. Beauty in the inner world is the perfect realisation of one’s divine Reality.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970
1 December
When we are happy,
We go far beyond
The limitation-boundaries.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
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
4 April
Self-acceptance
Is the dawn of satisfaction.
Self-confidence
Is the noon of perfection.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 168, Agni Press, 1992
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
12 June
My Lord,
Do teach me the message
Of universal love.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 34, Agni Press, 2003
11 June
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
10 June
We can fulfil our destiny
Only by serving
And loving humanity.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
9 June
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
7 June
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
6 June
Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002
5 June
“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
4 June
“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
3 June
Our God-faith
Solves
All our life-problems.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
2 June
We must climb
Our life’s perfection-stairway
Slowly, steadily and unerringly.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
1 June
Holiness
Is good.
Selflessness
Is infinitely better.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
30 May
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
29 May
We are searching everywhere
For peace,
Which is already
Deep within us.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22
28 May
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