Every day feel that you are
A most beautiful, fresh flowerAnd offer yourself to your Beloved Supreme.
Otherwise, as the years advance,You will feel you are becoming
A dry, withered flowerThat cannot even be placed on the shrine.
```From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 93, Agni Press, 1983
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