Negative Forces and Positive Forces

“Negative forces are those forces that tell you that you are hopeless and useless, that you cannot realise God and that is useless to try. These are the forces that tell you not to pray and meditate because there is nothing in meditation. If you allow these negative forces to enter into you, if you become one with them, then you will feel that your life has no meaning.

Positive forces make you feel that you are God’s chosen son and that you have the possibility and potentiality of doing something significant for God and for your own divinity at every moment. If you remain in the heart, you will encounter very few negative forces, practically none.”

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from: The Illumination of Life’s Clouds, Part 1