Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 1

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Only a mind

That has learnt a bitter lesson

Realises what an extraordinary sacrifice

The aspiring heart has already made for it

And how many more sacrifices

Are yet to follow. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 1, Agni Press, 1983
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