quotes and poems of inspiration

My boasting mind promises
God-manifestation
My aspiring heart
Fulfils the Promise.

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 48

“…If we use the heart, we know what forgiveness is. As soon as I am forgiven by the Highest Absolute, I am fully satisfied. Otherwise, this moment I am fully identified with the Supreme, but then my sense of identification goes away. Even if He shows me something new, even if He shows me His Oneness, His Infinity, His Immortality or His Eternity, I may not be satisfied. But when I see that He has forgiven me, I get boundless joy. At that time I feel I have really become the manifestation of His Will. If we use the mind, we will never understand this message. But if we use the heart, immediately we will feel the meaning of it…”

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from: Sri Chinmoy Answers Part 9

“Right now we are all ordinary human instruments of God. But we see in this world there are some who are more dedicated and more devoted, more willing and able to manifest God than we are. We are not competing with those who are doing a better job. But by observing them, we see that we can make progress. In order to make progress we have to be with the world, in the world and for the world. There are many things which the world does that we do not approve of - such as wars and so forth. But we do like other things. We like peace, love and the feeling of oneness. Because of our feeling of oneness, because of our love of peace, we have come to the World Masters Games. People from various countries have come to these Games to show their feeling of oneness. These Masters Games offer us a special message. They make us feel that even though we may be forty, fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty or even ninety years old, we are still God’s children. When someone is fifty years old, it is very difficult for him to think of himself as a child. For us to think of ourselves as children is very difficult because we have developed the mind. But the Masters Games help us feel that we are truly children, for it is only children who like to play. People who are advanced in years will stay home and watch television or read newspapers, but children have boundless energy. They have hope, they have ambition, they have determination. They want to become good, better, best….”

- Sri Chinmoy

From: the opening of the 5th World Masters Games, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in September 1983.

Excerpt from: Senior Citizens at Sri Chinmoy.org

If we do not have the inner strength
To plunge deep within,
Our goal shall always remain
A far cry.

- Sri Chinmoy

From: Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 27

Question: How can our outer smile help our running?

Sri Chinmoy: Your outer smile can help your running considerably. When you smile, you disarm your opponent. Take running, for the time being, as your opponent. While you are fighting or struggling with your enemy, which is running, if you give a smile, naturally your enemy will lose some of its strength. So play a trick on your enemy by smiling. This may sound absurd, but I assure you it is true. Just think of the running world as an enemy and weaken the strength of this enemy by giving a smile.

From: Training at Sri Chinmoy.org

I must do everything today,
Here and now.
What if tomorrow’s dawn
Never arrives?

- Sri Chinmoy

From: Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 27.

I sing because You sing,
I smile because You smile.
Because You play on the flute
I have become Your flute.
You play in the depths of my heart.
You are mine, I am Yours:
This is my sole identification.
In one Form
You are my Mother and Father eternal,
And Consciousness moon, Consciousness sun,
All pervading.

Excerpt from “My Flute” by  Sri Chinmoy

Smile and smile and smile.
You will win the race
Against your enemies.

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 27

How far do I have to go, my Lord?
“My child,
You do not have to go anywhere.
Just stay where you are and become
What I want you to become.”

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from: Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees vol 27

“In order to enter into the higher worlds what we need is sincerity; what we need is purity; what we need is peace; what we need is delight.
Sincerity: Inner beauty’s other name is sincerity.

Purity: The name of God’s first child is purity.

Peace: Peace is unity’s sovereignty and multiplicity’s divinity.

Delight: Delight is the name of God’s permanent Home.”

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from Talk on the Higher Worlds at Cambridge University