“Your mind may not know
What will make you happy,
But your heart does know
How to make you happy.
Listen to your heart.”
Category: daily quote
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.
1 Feb
“Who is a child?
A child is he
Who is his heart’s
Prayer-beauty.”
31 Jan
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
30 Jan
“No matter what happens,
I shall always remain
Inside my heart-nest.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
28 Jan
“Without willingness and eagerness,
Spiritual progress
Can never be made.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 33, Agni Press, 2003
27 Jan
“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
25 Jan
“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
24 Jan
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
19 October
Nothing else is perfect
And
Nothing else can ever be perfect
Except the soulful cry
Of our fruitful gratitude-heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
12 October
While walking along
The avenue of my aspiration-heart,
What do I do?
I harvest my heart’s sunlight.
How?
Slowly, steadily and selflessly.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 9, Agni Press, 1981
11 October
My physical death
Is not the end of my life —
I am an eternal journey.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 52, Agni Press, 2007
10 October
No matter who houses a bad thought —
A desire-man or an aspiration-man —
A bad thought is a dire challenge
To humanity’s progress-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 24, Agni Press, 1984
9 October
Self-transcendence
Is the inner wealth
That pleases the Inner Pilot
More than anything else.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 52, Agni Press, 2007
20 June
God tells me that
My happy heart
Increases the beauty
Of His universal Heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998
18 June
“Those who want to explore the heart
Will have no time
To indulge in the thought-world.”
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
17 June
When we extend our arms
To humanity,
God immediately strengthens
Our hearts.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003
16 June
We must totally forget
Our self-importance
Way of life.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999
15 June
When hostile forces attack you,
Have nothing to do with them.
Create a world of indifference
Within and around you.
Their own pride will compel them
To leave you.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
14 June
I take each failure as an opportunity
To increase my surrender
And destroy my frustration-life.
I take each success as an opportunity
To bring forward my gratitude-heart
And totally destroy my ego-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
12 June
If you do not turn from your ignorance-life,
Then who will do it for you?
If you do not want to enjoy
Nectar-delight in boundless measure,
Then who will do it for you?
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
11 June
Your oneness-heart
Does not have to say anything,
For it at once embodies
Both earth’s ascending aspiration-hope
And Heaven’s descending
Compassion-promise.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
10 June
Love the divine in yourself
Infinitely more
Than you have been doing,
So you will not have to imitate
The human in others.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
9 June
God does not want to know from you
What you want.
He just wants to know from you
What you want to become
And what kind of help
You need from Him.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 12, Agni Press, 1983
7 June
When you walk
With your fellow travellers
Along Eternity’s Road,
Like a magnet
You should try to draw
Inspiration and aspiration from them.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983
6 June
Cry and cry sleeplessly
If you want to change the world.
Love and love constantly
If you want to change yourself.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 18, Agni Press, 1983