Daily Poem

Minimise
Your needs
And maximise
Your self-giving life.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Nothing is more important
Than peace,
And only meditation
Can give this peace.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

The victory
Of our ego-mind
Is, indeed,
Hollow.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

The right advice:
Love God every day
More and more.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

The right advice:
Think of others first
Before you think of yourself.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

The aspiring heart radiates
Only one thing:
Happiness.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Always be
A little more soulful
Than you thought you could be.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

As my mistakes are endless,
Even so, God’s Forgiveness
Is infinite and eternal.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Life is a game that is played
By the heart’s tears
And the soul’s smiles.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Each time we smile
From our hearts,
God blesses us
With tremendous Pride.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Have faith in God.
All your earth-suffering-stories
Will eventually fade away.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

The inner world
Not only needs
But also loves
The outer harmony.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

“There exists only one goal that is Truth, but this goal is expressed and at the same time is sought in different forms.”

Sri Chinmoy, Earth’s cry meets Heaven’s smile, part 3, Agni Press, 1978

“No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a power that easily transcends all our worldly knowledge.”

Sri Chinmoy, Lifting Up The World With a Oneness-Heart, Agni Press, 1988

When the soul guides us,
We are safe,
For the soul receives guidance
Directly from God.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Meditation has the capacity
To transform ignorance-night
Into wisdom-light.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

Circumstances
Cannot change man’s life.
His attitude
Can and does.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 168, Agni Press, 1992

We need only two things:
Our love of God
And God’s Love for us.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

My greatness does not last;
My goodness does.
My goodness is God’s Joy,
God’s Pride and plus.

Sri Chinmoy, My God-Hunger-Cry, Agni Press, 2009

To see and love
The Eye of golden Truth,
The seeker needs
A heart of fountain-ruth.

Sri Chinmoy, My God-Hunger-Cry, Agni Press, 2009

When there is a feeling
Of supremacy,
There can be no peace,
For peace is only in oneness.

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

“We not only have to forgive others, but we also have to forgive ourselves. If we do not forgive ourselves all the time, we shall be displeased with ourselves. We have to forgive ourselves with the proper understanding that we shall not make the same mistake again; we shall go forward.”

Sri Chinmoy, Sri Chinmoy answers, part 17, Agni Press, 1999

Independent
Nobody is —
We just fool ourselves.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 41, Agni Press, 2004

Be kind, be all sympathy,
For each and every human being
Is forced to fight against himself.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 129, Agni Press, 1990

The land of freedom
Is not around us,
Not before us,
But deep within us.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 47, Agni Press, 2007

“Anger comes precisely because we are lacking in oneness. If we have the feeling of oneness with the world, then anger does not come. The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.”

Sri Chinmoy, The illumination of life-clouds, part 2, Agni Press, 1974

I must see the world
Through my heart-eye
So that I can always remain happy.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 36, Agni Press, 2004

Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yourself?
If so, remain completely silent
Inside the silence-sea.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 40, Agni Press, 1982

Let our speciality
Be uniting,
Not separating.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 16, Agni Press, 1999

We should be grateful
For what we have
And for what we have not.
Everything might change
For the worse.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 27, Agni Press, 2002