8463. A Shameless Self-Lover

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You are denied the satisfaction

Of God’s Presence

Not because you do not need God,

Not because you speak ill of God,

But because you have become

An absurd and shameless self-lover. ```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 85, Agni Press, 1983
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