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In our outer lifeWe want victory in everything
To make us happy.
In our inner life
We want our ego’s failure
To make us happy.
In first edition, the poem read:
In our inner life | We want victory in everything | To make us happy. In our outer life | We want our ego’s failure | To make us happy.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 24, Agni Press, 1984