You can thrive
In the face of adversity
If you have ceaseless faith in yourself
And if you are ready to play the role
Of the hero-warrior
At every moment of your life.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 179, Agni Press, 1993
How I wish I could have
Only one flower
In my heart-garden:
Gratitude and nothing else.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
If you cannot love the unlovable,
Then you are not worthy
To become
God’s supremely chosen instrument.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
I shall no more allow
World-criticism
To destroy the beauty
Of my flower-heart-home.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
The heart that loves
Unites
All and sundry.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9
I am all gratitude
To earth
For its boundless patience.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
We may not know where we came from,
But we do know that we are heading
Towards Heaven.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Listen only to your soul.
Do not allow your vital and mind
To lord it over you
Any more.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Those who offer themselves
For the betterment of the world
Are God’s chosen champions
In the inner world.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Inner faith
Does have the capacity
To change
The outer mind’s course.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 24, Agni Press, 2002
Humility, my humility,
You are my Heaven-climbing
Staircase.
– Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 19
Self-acceptance
Is the dawn of satisfaction.
Self-confidence
Is the noon of perfection.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 168, Agni Press, 1992
Since you do not play
The foul game
Of blind negatives,
Yours will be the Consciousness-delight,
Here, there and
All-where.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
Now that I have
Become an explorer,
I shall explore
A new land:
The heart-land.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981
It is quite amazing
That my mind
Has started listening
To my heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
So far I have learnt
Only comfort,
But from now on I shall learn
Only effort, inner and outer.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
I must love
The journey itself
Without caring for the goal.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Do not expect the world
To applaud you.
The right Person to applaud you
Is God Himself.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
This world
Is unimaginably beautiful
Except to the self-styled critics.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Alas, what are we doing?
We are trying to conceal ourselves
From our universal selves!
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
One wrong thought
Can ruin everything
At the journey’s start.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Clear the mind
Of all its
Discouraging thoughts.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
My aim
Is to live the life
Of a genuine self-giver.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
Because my heart
Is spiritual,
My life belongs to all.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
My soul does not eclipse
Anybody’s sun-beauty.
On the contrary,
It helps others to shine their brightest.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
The sun of Infinity’s Light
Is inside my heart.
I must bring it to the fore
For the transformation of the world.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 37, Agni Press, 2004
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
