5 January

God gave me the happiest news that He loves me even if I don’t care to love Him. I gave God the greatest news that I think of Him although ignorance constantly thinks of me.

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

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3 January

I do not compete with the world. I compete with my ignorance. I do not compare myself with the world. I compare myself with my soul’s perfection. I do not cooperate with the world’s stupidity. I cooperate with my heart’s purest sincerity.

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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