“Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.”
Author Archives: Patanga
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.”
6 Feb
“May my meditation
Lose its heart
Inside God’s Silence-Eye.”
5 Feb
“The Infinite within Divinity
Is as sure
As the beauty inside a flower.”
4 Feb
Why do I meditate?
I meditate precisely because
My meditation proudly carries me
To the shore I seek.
2 Feb
“Nobody can overestimate
The beauty,
The power
And the delight
Of self-conquest.”
1 Feb
“Who is a child?
A child is he
Who is his heart’s
Prayer-beauty.”
Dec 31
Beautify my heart.
May the purity of the New Year
Purify my mind.
May the simplicity of the New Year
Simplify my vital.
May the intensity of the New Year
Intensify my body.
May the responsibility of the New Year
Glorify my life.
May only the divinity of the New Year
Fully satisfy me.
Dec 30
And you will never be happy
Because you do not lose yourself
Enough to find yourself —
I mean your true self.
Dec 29
Our aspiration gives us
Is infinitely generous
And eternally free.
Dec 28
That is founded upon self-giving
Even death cannot sever.
Dec 27
If you have a plethora of enthusiasm
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 261,
Throughout,
Then eventually you are bound to win
In your spiritual life.
Dec 26
God’s final Decision:
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 261, Agni Press, 1998
He will never end the world,
No matter how bad the world becomes.
Dec 25
The Christ told the Truth. The Truth existed before. The Christ became the Truth. Hence the Truth lives and breathes on earth.
Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Agni Press, 1970
Dec 24
Jesus was great.
Greater was His mercy.
Greatest was His sacrifice.
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 23
Tolerance
Is a secret and sacred way
To enrich our human life.
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 22
A vice does not remain a vice
When I am absolutely determined
To transform it into a virtue.
– Sri Chinmoy
Dec 21
What you need is
Determination-fire.
Uneasiness, unwillingness and unreadiness
Will all surrender
To the beauty and fragrance
Of determination.
Dec 20
By interfering?
We gain nothing.
We just become a victim
Of our own stupidity.
Dec 19
I do not want to be
Even one step above you.
I want to be
On the same footing,
Not only to make you happy
But also to make myself really happy.
Dec 18
You must overcome
All your difficulties,
Not try to escape from them,
For there is no such thing
As escape.
Dec 17
My little heart is useless.
But the inner world knows
My little heart is both
Priceless and measureless.
Dec 16
Do not complain.
Just train your mind
To look at the world
With a compassion-eye.
Dec 15
Move from one dream to another.
Who knows which dream
Is going to be transformed
Into reality?
Dec 14
Do for us?
It can do in a minute
What would take a lifetime
Otherwise.
Dec 13
I shall not fail.
Even though I fail,
I shall not give up,
Never!
Dec 12
A life of love is worth living.
A life of God is worth becoming.
Dec 11
For in life abides
God’s Golden Dream.
Dec 10
Never set.