There can be
No abiding satisfaction
Without self-discipline.

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

Real joy
Abides only
In the heart of peace.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 28, Agni Press, 2002

There is only one dream
That will always be perfect
In your lifetime,
And that is the dream
Of self-transcendence.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 163, Agni Press, 1991

Do not plan your life in advance. It is not fair to take away God’s job.

Sri Chinmoy, To-Morrow’s Dawn, Agni Press, 1982

God cares infinitely more
For my honest efforts
Than for my actual successes.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 40, Agni Press, 2004

No matter what I do,
No matter what I say,
My Lord will not give up on me —
So says my Lord Supreme.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 40, Agni Press, 2004

Love God in God’s Way —
Not by thinking,
Not even by aspiring,
But by constant self-offering.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 42, Agni Press, 2005

If your mind is flooded
With ego-pride,
Then your life, without fail,
Will be mangled
By confusion-tiger.

- Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 6, Agni Press, 1983

Each human mind
Is ultimately changeable.
Each divine heart
Remains eternally unchangeable.

- Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 6, Agni Press, 1983

His heart’s deep yearning
Is the only thing
He sleeplessly and deathlessly
Enjoys.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 87, Agni Press, 1984