Poems on Failure

NO FAILURE

No failure, no failure.

Failure is the shadow

Of success.

No failure, no failure.

Failure is the changing body

Of success.

No failure, no failure.

Failure is the fast approaching train

Of the greatest success.

• Excerpt from The Dance Of Life, Part 13 by Sri Chinmoy.

FAILURE AND SUCCESS


Defeat
Is a bad failure.
Despair
Is a worse failure.
Not to try again
Is the worst failure.
Victory
Is a good success.
Progress
Is a better success.
Surrender
Is the best success.

• Excerpt from The Dance Of Life, Part 19 by Sri Chinmoy.

FORCED BY FAILURE

Forced by failure,
I cry and die.
Success-failure
Oneness-Experience
Shall grant me God-wings
To merrily fly.

• Excerpt from A Soulful Cry Versus A Fruitful Smile by Sri Chinmoy.

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FAILURE INCARNATE

I am sorry that you cannot trust the Bible. Do one thing: Try to trust God. If even that you cannot do, Then you must dare To trust yourself. Here, too, if you fail, (I definitely hope you won't), I will have no other choice but to call you "Failure incarnate."

• Excerpt from Three Soulful Prayers by Sri Chinmoy