Question: How can we stop ourselves from crying too much?

Sri Chinmoy: If it is crying for God, then cry. There is no such thing as crying too much when you cry for Peace, Light and Bliss. But in general, the cry that you offer is nothing but your cry for physical beauty, earthly achievements and all kinds of things like that. You should feel that these things are absolutely useless rubbish. When these desires are fulfilled, what happens? You see that you have only created more problems in yourself and that you have become more involved in desire or more attracted by desire. So you can see that earthly things are meaningless and the fulfilment of desires is useless. You have already fulfilled quite a few desires and they have not given you any joy. So automatically you can stop crying. Again, there is no end to our cry for Peace, Light and Bliss. If you want Peace, Light and Bliss, then you should cry and cry.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Transcendence of the past, Agni Press, 1977
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