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

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

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