10 May

As millions of stars
Sing and dance together
In harmony,
Even so, our body,
Vital, mind and heart
Must sing and dance
In harmony.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999

9 May

It matters not
How much we know
About God.
It matters only
How much we have given
To God.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999

8 May

Go beyond the domain
Of the mind.
You will be able to shine
In the galaxy
Of happiness-stars.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999

7 May

Difficult, but not impossible,
To dethrone
The proud ego-king-mind.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999

6 May

The silence of meditation
Is
The expansion of a happiness
And fulness-heart.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999

5 May

There is no mind-hurricane
That cannot be silenced
By our heart’s
Soul-oneness-power.

4 May

Do not think
Of your own incapacity-tears.
Think only
Of real satisfaction-cheers.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 13, Agni Press, 1999

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1 May

Fear is a limping thought.
Doubt is a blinding thought.
Courage is a galloping thought.
Faith is an illumining thought.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 8, Agni Press, 1981

4 April

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

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30 March

Purity awakens the real in me:
Oneness.
Humility strengthens the real in me:
Perfection.
Gratitude enlightens the real in me:
Satisfaction.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 10, Agni Press, 1981

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19 June

Meditation is man’s thirst for the Infinite Real, Eternal Real and Absolute Real. The secret of meditation is to achieve conscious and constant oneness with God.

– Sri Chinmoy, Eastern Light for the Western mind, Agni Press, 1973

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15 June

“You can obtain purity by constantly feeling that you are a three-year-old child, or you can feel that you are a flower, a beautiful flower with fragrance, and nothing else. In this way you can obtain purity.”

Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy speaks, part 8, Agni Press, 1976

14 June

“In the spiritual life, compassion is nothing other than oneness itself. Compassion does not mean a sense of pity. Compassion is the expansion of what one eternally is.”

Sri Chinmoy, Inspiration-garden and aspiration-leaves, Agni Press, 1977

13 June

God’s Compassion
Has a way of
Working things out.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 32, Agni Press, 2003

10 June

We can fulfil our destiny
Only by serving
And loving humanity.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 12, Agni Press, 1999

9 June

The power of humility
Has the capacity to simplify
The mind’s complicated ego-life.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998

8 June

“Why do we want to transcend? We want to transcend because the life of ignorance, bondage, imperfection and death cannot satisfy us. We want to achieve something. We want to grow into something which is eternal; we want to grow into the very image of Immortality.”

Sri Chinmoy, The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2, Agni Press, 2004

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7 June

God can heal any suffering.
God can present Himself
In any uninspiring situation.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002

6 June

Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 25, Agni Press, 2002

5 June

“The tree of life teaches us how to search desperately for true love, divine love and immortal love.”

Sri Chinmoy, Tree of life, Jharna-Kala Card Co., 1997

4 June

“If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.”

Sri Chinmoy, Songs of the Soul, Agni Press, 1971

2 June

We must climb
Our life’s perfection-stairway
Slowly, steadily and unerringly.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001

1 June

Holiness
Is good.
Selflessness
Is infinitely better.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001

30 May

Self-offering
Is an unparalleled opportunity
To claim all as one’s very own.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001

29 May

We are searching everywhere
For peace,
Which is already
Deep within us.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22