“Life and hope are inseparable. Life is the body, and hope is the intuitive divinity in us, the divinity that wants to transcend the reality which we presently are. Hope is man’s seeking, hope is man’s inner urge, hope is man’s upward flight into the Beyond.”
Sri Chinmoy, Fifty Freedom-Boats to one Golden Shore, part 2, Agni Press, 1974
“Although I am far, very far from my Goal,
When I think of my Goal
Or imagine my Goal,
I get boundless joy.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
“No matter what happens,
I shall always remain
Inside my heart-nest.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
“Divine surrender is the surrender that we make to our own highest part. Each individual has two realities: the higher reality and the lower reality. The lower reality is still unlit, obscure, impure; whereas the higher reality is all divine, all perfection. So we consciously try to bring our lower reality into the higher one for its illumination. This surrender is not made to somebody else, to a third person. No, this surrender is made to one’s own highest self.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992
“Without willingness and eagerness,
Spiritual progress
Can never be made.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
“If you are sincerely aspiring, you will never expect anything from God, even in your imagination. Your sincere aspiration will tell you that God loves you infinitely more than you can understand, and that God, out of His infinite Love and Compassion, has already provided you with everything.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992
“If I cannot find peace within myself,
How can I offer even an iota of peace
To humanity?”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
“True freedom is not an isolated or independent thing. True freedom is oneness with the Infinite. It cannot operate in isolation, as a separate thing. God is both universal and individual, both unity and multiplicity. Just because we do not feel oneness with others, we do not have true freedom.”
Sri Chinmoy, Inner peace and world peace, Agni Press, 1992
Love is never alone.
Divinity’s blessings
And humanity’s gratitude
Always stay with love.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 151, Agni Press, 1991
If you deliberately keep teeming problems
Locked inside your mind,
What can your poor soul
And your poor heart
Do for you?