Category: daily quote

Humility, indeed,
Is infinitely greater
Than man-considered greatness.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

We must bring down Heaven
And feel its divine Beauty
And supreme Fragrance
Here on earth.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Gratitude
Is an unimaginable joy
For both humanity
And Divinity.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Ego is illusion, delusion,
Self-aggrandisement
And many things more.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Sterling service to God
Should be the dream and reality
Of a genuine God-seeker.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Very long ago
God had a Dream.
The Dream is not yet fulfilled.
What is that Dream?
Humanity’s radical transformation.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Whenever we are kind and compassionate
To a human being,
It must never be mere lip-service.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Nothing can be more beautiful,
Nothing can be more meaningful,
Nothing can be more fruitful
Than God’s Forgiveness.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

First achieve mastery
Over your own life —
Then only can you be
A world-transforming hero.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Self-control
Is of paramount importance
To see the Face
And feel the Heart
Of God.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

If I do not love myself
In a divine way,
Then my spiritual life
Will be a total failure.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Finally
I have cast aside
My ego-pride.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Forgiveness and happiness
Shall forever remain
Inseparable.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

The outer sound
Can never be as powerful
As the inner silence.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Silence can easily
Challenge and conquer
The pride of sound.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Meditation is perfect
Only when the seeker
Feels God’s Presence
Inside his heart.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Fear means
The absence of
God-oneness-love.

Humility is the height
Of inner strength.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004

All his life he has been feeding hope:
The beauty of hope,
The purity of hope
And the divinity of hope.
Hope is his all.

– Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 97, Agni Press, 1983

“To serve humanity is good. Better is it to serve Divinity. Better still is it to serve Divinity and humanity together. Best is to serve Divinity first and then serve humanity.”

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

“To help humanity I want my life to be a life of ceaseless duration. To serve God I wish my life to be a life of selfless donation.”

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

“Because I love mankind, God loves me. Because I love God, Truth loves me. Because I love Truth, I really and truly love myself.”

Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: food for the soul, Aum Centre, New York, 1970

“May my meditation
Lose its heart
Inside God’s Silence-Eye.”

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 192, Agni Press, 1993

“The Infinite within Divinity
Is as sure
As the beauty inside a flower.”

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 192, Agni Press, 1993

Why do I meditate?
I meditate precisely because
My meditation proudly carries me
To the shore I seek.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 192, Agni Press, 1993

“Nobody can overestimate
The beauty,
The power
And the delight
Of self-conquest.”

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193, Agni Press, 1993

“Who is a child?
A child is he
Who is his heart’s
Prayer-beauty.”

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 193, Agni Press, 1993

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

“God has infinite children, but the name of His fondest child is Peace.”

– Sri Chinmoy