Daily Wisdom from Sri Chinmoy » gratitude http://www.shortpoems.org/blog quotes and poems of inspiration Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:08:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Gratitude is a Living Reality http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/05/09/gratitude-is-a-living-reality/ http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/05/09/gratitude-is-a-living-reality/#comments Fri, 09 May 2008 20:42:44 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/05/09/gratitude-is-a-living-reality/ “  Gratitude is a living reality. A seeker has to know that his most powerful capacity is gratitude. What God has is infinite Compassion and what we have is gratitude. God’s gift to man is infinite Compassion and our gift to God is an iota of gratitude to be placed at His Feet. Gratitude-power can never be surpassed. It is the only satisfaction we can offer God. This is not because God needs our gratitude but because He needs ample opportunity to enter into us in a more effective way, and gratitude increases our heart’s receptivity.”

From A God-Lover’s Earth-Heaven Life by Sri Chinmoy

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Sri Chinmoy: It is through the constant inner cry. We cry outwardly when we desperately need name, fame, outer capacity, prosperity and so forth. But when we cry inwardly, we have to feel that we are crying only to please and fulfil God in His own Way. The outer cry is for our own fulfilment, in our own way. The inner cry is for God-fulfilment in God’s own Way. If there is a constant inner cry, that means we are trying to please God, satisfy God and fulfil God in God’s own Way. If we can cry inwardly, in silence, then our gratitude increases, because inside the inner cry is the abode of gratitude, and inside the abode of gratitude is God.

Excerpt from: The Giver and The Receiver

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/05/04/bringing-gratitude-to-the-fore/feed/ 0 Every Day http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/03/14/every-day/ http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/03/14/every-day/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:12:17 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/03/14/every-day/ Every day I have made it a point
To walk lovingly and faithfully
Along the path of gratitude.

- Sri Chinmoy

Excerpt from: Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants # 26101

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/03/14/every-day/feed/ 0 I am Grateful http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/02/11/i-am-grateful/ http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/02/11/i-am-grateful/#comments Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:09:47 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/02/11/i-am-grateful/ “I am grateful to my Beloved Supreme, for out of His infinite Bounty He has given me the capacity not to drag Him into my desire-world, but to implore His Presence in my aspiration-world, and also to offer Him my earth-bound will and desire-life, and soulfully declare, “Let Thy Will be done.”

- Sri Chinmoy

From: Everest Aspiration part 1 

]]> http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/02/11/i-am-grateful/feed/ 1 The Lost God-Hour http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/01/26/the-lost-god-hour/ http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/01/26/the-lost-god-hour/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:06:46 +0000 tejvan http://www.shortpoems.org/blog/2008/01/26/the-lost-god-hour/ Who says that nothing can bring back
The lost God-Hour?
You can easily bring back the God-Hour
If you can turn each and every breath
Of your life
Into a beautiful and soulful
Gratitude-flower.

- Sri Chinmoy

Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 47

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