quotes and poems of inspiration
May 5th, 2008 — hope
Far, very far, into the world of the farthest beyond
My hope carries me and places me
On the sweetest lap of the unknown.
There I behold my Self-form
In the Dance-Delight of the Absolute.
- Sri Chinmoy
From: ‘Dure Dure Bahu Dure Asha More Niye Jai’ - Supreme Teach Me how to cry – 100 Bengali Songs
Songs translated from Bengali into English
May 3rd, 2008 — hope
Your blessing garland is my journey’s road
And victory’s fulfilling satisfaction.
This hope of a tiny drop
In the heart of the mighty ocean
Will not be in vain.
You are the Light of my eye
And the Friend of my sorrowful heart.
I am Your Blessing-Compassion.
You are the identification of my heart.
- Sri Chinmoy
From: Supreme Teach Me how to cry – 100 Bengali Songs
Songs translated from Bengali into English by Sri Chinmoy
April 17th, 2008 — hope
When hope guides my steps,
The vision of Eternity’s Reality
Comes running towards me.
- Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from: Ten Thousand Flower Flames part 62
April 15th, 2008 — hope
“What is hope? Hope is man’s preparation for the unknown. Hope is man’s aspiration for the unknowable. The unknown right now is man’s ultimate achievement; the unknowable is God’s eternal Now.
Hope is man’s inner effort. An ordinary man is not aware of this inner effort, but a seeker of the highest Truth is fully aware of it. This inner effort inspires the seeker to see something new, to feel something new, to say something new, to do something new and, finally, to become something new…”
- Sri Chinmoy
Excerpt from: My Rose Petals part 3
April 13th, 2008 — hope
Thou art my Lord, my golden dream,
Thou art my life in death.
O bless me with Thy Hope Supreme,
Lord of the Eternal Breath!
Agelong the vision of Thy Sun
For darkness have I sought.
I know the evils I should shun
And quickly bring to nought.
The earth is deaf and blind, my Lord;
Its true goal it denies.
It hears no voice, no heavenly word
From those who seek the skies.
O yet I feel Thy kingly Grace
With my feeble mortality.
I shall win at last the Noonward Race,
Plunge in the Nectar-Sea.
- Sri Chinmoy
February 2nd, 2008 — hope
“When we aspire, we come to realise that hope is a hand, beautiful and powerful, beckoning us towards our psychic transformation. We see and feel that hope is the perfect beginning of our God-realisation. When we do not aspire, hope appears before us in a different way. We feel that perhaps it is all mental hallucination; perhaps it is all deception.”
- Sri Chinmoy
From talk on Hope by Sri Chinmoy