You want to remember
What you were in substance:
A sinner.
God wants you to see
What you are in essence:
A perfect saint.

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 63 by Sri Chinmoy

You are a sinner:
You have allowed your mind
To convince you of this.
You are a saint:
When are you going to allow God
To convince your heart of this?

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 63 by Sri Chinmoy

Your mind may be enjoying
An encircling gloom.
Your heart may be enjoying
An increasing confusion.
But your soul will always remain
A beckoning light.

Excerpt from Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 63 by Sri Chinmoy

To think of the past
Is indeed a painful task.
To carry the past
Is indeed a fruitless burden.

You can transform
The hurtful pressures of your life
Into delightful pleasures
Just by telling yourself
That the world around you
Can easily exist
And even prosper
Without you.

The moment you know
Who you really are,
All secrets of the world
Will be an open book to you.

Since the mind itself
Is all confusion,
How can you expect the mind
To liberate you from confusion?

Since the heart itself
Is all aspiration,
You can quite reasonably and unmistakably
Expect aspiration from the heart.

Keep trying!
It so often happens
That the last key opens the door.
Likewise, it is your last prayer
That may grant you salvation,
And your last meditation
That may grant you realisation.

Who says that you have failed?
You have not blamed anybody.
Unless and until
you have blamed somebody,
You are not a failure.
You cannot be a failure.
Never!

Do not blame yourself.
This world will do it for you,
Far beyond your imagination.
Do not admire yourself.
The higher worlds will do it for you,
Far beyond your expectation.