Poems about Confidence
Your confidence-heart need not be
The result of your yesterday's success.
Your confidence-heart can easily be
The result of your implicit faith
In tomorrow's most beautiful dawn.
- Sri Chinmoy (*)
Confidence, confidence.
God has confidence in me
And
I have confidence in God.
God feels I shall he able
To equal Him.
I am sure God will help me
In this matter.
I feel I shall be able
To manifest Him.
I am sure God will help me
In this matter.
- Sri Chinmoy (1)
My
Human confidence
Is
The proud feeling
Of knowing everything,
Of understanding everything.
My
Divine confidence
Is
To identify myself with the heart of everything,
See God and the world
With the soul of everything,
And
Become one with God the Aspiration-Light
And God the Realisation-Delight of everything.
- Sri Chinmoy (2)
What is confidence?
Your love for your real nature.
What is confidence?
The destruction of your negative thoughts.
What is confidence?
The transformation of imagination
Into reality.
- Sri Chinmoy (3)
Bibliography
(*) Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 44 by Sri Chinmoy.
(1) Excerpt from Three Hundred Sixty-Five Father's Day Prayers by Sri Chinmoy.
(2) Excerpt from The Dance Of Life, Part 7 by Sri Chinmoy.
(3) Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 12 (#1117)by Sri Chinmoy.
Related Poems
Writing on Self Confidence
by Sri Chinmoy
Self-confidence comes into existence when we feel that there is some higher force that is constantly looking after us and guiding us. If we do not have that kind of feeling or belief, then we can have no abiding self-confidence. We have to cultivate faith in our Inner Pilot. Right now He is unknowable. If we pray and meditate, He becomes knowable. And if we continue along the spiritual path, He eventually becomes totally known.
Self-confidence comes into existence when we offer our very existence to the feet of a higher force. If that higher force is right now only imaginary, no harm. If we have faith and if we surrender our existence to this higher force, then self-confidence is automatically achieved in our life of aspiration.
- Life-Tree-Leaves by Sri Chinmoy.
Talk on Human Confidence and Divine Confidence
"There is a great difference between human confidence and divine confidence. When it is human confidence, like Julius Caesar we shall say, "I came, I saw, I conquered." But when it is divine confidence, we will say, "I came, I saw and then I became inseparably one." In human confidence there is always a feeling of superiority. I am one inch higher than you, so I can lord it over you or guide you or mould you the way I want. But divine confidence is not like that. Divine confidence is the recognition, acceptance and inner assurance of oneness. And this oneness is guided, moulded, shaped, fulfilled and immortalised by a higher reality, the highest Reality, which is the Supreme. When we have divine confidence, we feel that we are God's instruments and that God is guiding us, moulding us, shaping us. But when it is human confidence, there is no God; there is only you and I, and I am one inch higher than you; therefore I can dominate you and fulfil myself in my own way. "
From: Sri Chinmoy Speaks
