Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 108

10701

I may not be or cannot be a member
Of God’s Vision-Manifestation-team
On earth,
But I dearly love the team’s
God-oneness-heart
And profoundly admire
Its God-fulness-hands.
But I do know and I do feel
That God will eventually make me
A member of His Vision-Manifestation-team.

10702

God Himself has told me
That there are no speed limits
On my self-transcendence-road.

10703

God is proud of me
Because of my life’s firmness.
God is fond of me
Because of my heart’s tenderness.

10704

Because I have overfed my body,
God is crying,
Standing outside my body.

Because I have starved my soul,
God is crying,
Lying inside my soul.

10705

If your unconditional surrender
Is complete, perfect and enduring,
Then you are fast nearing
Your God-realisation-zone.

10706

A barren nothingness is your life
Because you have strongly supported
Your mind’s unwillingness to welcome
God’s Compassion-Heart.

10707

Your mind’s jealousy-train
Will never be able to reach
Your heart’s purity-station.

10708

If you enjoy
Your mind’s jealousy-storms,
Then God will not grant you
His Divinity-Manifestation-Dream.

10709

My soul is showing me
The sure surrender-way,
The only way to live
In God’s Heart’s
Compassion-Inspiration-Nest.

10710

Since you are a victim
Of inactivity,
The temptation-snake has a free access
To your life.

10711

O my Lord’s Silence-Eye,
For You, only for You,
My heart’s sleepless
Gratitude-flood!

10712

A desiring mind
Raises expectation.
A self-giving heart
Traces illumination.

10713

O my arrogance-vital,
Do you not know that before long
You will collapse
Into a dark nothingness-abyss?

10714

Pay proper attention to your vital’s attacks.
You will see that nobody
Will ever be able to force you
Out of your heart’s aspiration-abode.

10715

This morning I gave God
What I had:
My openness-heart.

This evening God gave me
What He eternally is:
His Fulness-Victory.

10716

When did God tell you to live
In your darkness-hermit-mind-cave
And not in His illumination-flooded
Heart-Palace?

10717

My secret desire is to see
God’s Fondness-Eye.
My sacred desire is to give God
The fragrance of my oneness-heart.

10718

You want to know if I have
Anything special to show you.
Yes, I have!
I have my aspiration-love-flames
That play upon the Heart-Ocean
Of my Lord Supreme.

10719

This morning
God told my aspiration-heart
That it has nothing to do
With my stupid mind’s
Failure-peaks.

10720

My life’s Lord Supreme,
Today You are Your Heart’s
New Love-Forgiveness
And I am my heart’s
New-found faith.

10721

My God-loving heart
Is crying tomorrow’s tears
To smash the confines
Of earth-bound time
And fly away
Into Infinity’s Heart-Delight.

10722

Imitation can either limit
Your life’s ultimate capacity
Or awaken your heart
To the highest Reality.

10723

My long-forgotten aspiration-sun
Is once more rising
Because today I bravely dared
To lose my mind’s little “I”.

10724

Every morning my soul teaches me
A new surrender-song,
And every morning I teach myself
A new gratitude-dance.

10725

Be not your mind’s
Devouring negative tree.
Be your heart’s
Climbing positive plant.

10726

If your heart’s oneness
Is hard at work,
Then you are chosen to see God
Walking with His Sweetness-Smile
Inside your flower-heart-garden.

10727

The human mind cannot rest
Because it is constantly restless.
The divine heart does not rest
Because it has always something to do
For its Beloved Supreme.

10728

When God passes by me,
It takes Him only
Three fleeting seconds.
Should I not then think
Of His Compassion-Heart
And His Vision-Eye
Instead of thinking
Of my own insecurity-heart
And my impurity-mind?

10729

Who has written
My Heaven-climbing prayers?
God the universal Compassion-Heart.
Who is going to read them?
God the transcendental Satisfaction-Eye.

10730

Yesterday I was a great fool
When I took God’s Compassion-Eye
For granted.
Today I am a greater fool
Since I am taking God’s Forgiveness-Heart
For granted.

10731

Your heart is a whirlwind
Of anxiety
Because your doubting mind
Will never change.

10732

This morning God told me
Something absolutely new:
“My child,
Even if you are not inspired
To feel My Divinity’s Heart,
Try at least to be tempted
To see My Beauty’s Eye.”

10733

Yesterday God casually asked me
To give Him my heart’s gratitude-seed.
Today God is seriously asking me
To give Him my life’s surrender-plant.
Tomorrow God will unmistakably ask me
To give Him my all,
And that includes my little “I”.

10734

Not with the tears of your eyes
But with the tears of your heart
Will you be able to leave
Your bondage-life far behind you.

10735

If you are riding
The train of unending desires,
How can you arrive
At the hour of liberation?

10736

If you are
Your heart’s purity-perseverance,
You will hear
The soundless sound of fulfilment-song.

10737

What does God do
By Himself, with His own Heart?
He and His Heart
Together create Smiles
That span His own Vision-Sky.

10738

If you are only
A punishment-fearing seeker,
You will never see the Summit-Goal
Either above or ahead.

10739

Every night take a step back
From your fancied tension-life
To sleep with God’s God-Vision-Dreams.

10740

God openly and cheerfully
Enters into my heart-palace.
He secretly and sadly
Enters into my mind-cave.

10741

Your golden dreams
Are shattered
Because you enjoyed
Your mind’s doubt-schemes.

10742

What does meditation do?
Meditation brings down
The God of your life,
The God in your life
And also
The God for your life.

10743

Would you like to follow
A less complicated path?
Will you shatter the dreams
Of your stark uncertainty?
Will you?

10744

The deeper I dive within
The clearer becomes the gold mine
Of my heart’s gratitude.

10745

The seeker’s heart-cry
Is his escalator to go up
To his own highest height
In God’s Love-Fragrance-Heart.

10746

Every day cry
For illumination-light
And illumination-delight.
Otherwise,
Every day you will have to face
A host of temptation-sellers.

10747

An ingratitude-thought-ant
Is enough to disturb
Immortality’s love-flooded soul.

10748

There is no quitting!
Only rekindle your enthusiasm.
Indeed,
This is an unparalleled gift
That you can offer
Both to the creation and to the Creator.

10749

Have you lost the boarding pass
For your Heaven-flight?
If so,
Enter into your heart-garden
And collect some beauty-flowers
And offer them to the ticket-checker.

10750

Confusion does not have to be
The monopoly of our human mind.
It is also the powerful destroyer
Of our heart’s illumination.

10751

Each true God-lover
Has to be the standing record-holder
For selfless service.

10752

Your gratitude-life
May escape God’s notice.
Your surrender-life
May escape God’s notice.
But your love-oneness-life
Can never escape God’s notice.

10753

The inevitable happened:
My doubt-mind became
My life’s disastrous failure.

10754

Not by hiding
From God’s Compassion-Light
But by confiding
In God’s Forgiveness-Heart
Can and will a seeker’s life
Receive God’s Perfection-Light.

10755

The main reason
For my being here on earth
Is to see God smiling sleeplessly
In His Beauty’s creation-flower:
Man.

10756

Centuries of corrupt power
Have finally discovered
That they have done nothing other
Than lay a frustration-foundation.

10757

Do you want to invent
A new name for God?
Then clip immediately the wings
Of your God-oneness unwillingness-bird.

10758

His sweet breath of sincerity
Has stopped his mind
From feeding the fantasies of fame.

10759

Live not in the heart
Of false hope.
Live not in the mind
Of false disappointment.
If you live in these two places,
You will be inducted into
The hall of stupidity-fame.

10760

My sure life-sincerity-sun
Has collected a plethora
Of earth-illumining
And soul-fulfilling memories.

10761

The ancient question is:
Can God ever be seen?
The modern answer is:
God can be seen
And played with,
But He is not loved.
Perhaps He does not have to be loved.

10762

Only a self-conquering sprinter’s heart
Can run quickly through the crowded hall
Of hesitation-life.

10763

Hope-guest
Always pays a fleeting visit
To both man’s mind-jungle
And his heart-garden.

10764

How can a stupidity-collecting mind
Go beyond grief-futility-domain
And self-destruction-night?

10765

What man’s mind demands,
God’s Heart will not supply.
What man’s heart invokes,
God’s Heart will supply
In infinitely greater measure
Than man’s heart can ever need.

10766

God is happy
Because He has
His Eternity’s unreserved Heart.

Man is pleased
Because he has
His impurity-flooded mind.

10767

If you are not ready
To forget your impurity-past,
How can you expect God
To liberate you from
Your poverty-stricken aspiration-life?

10768

Never pay any attention
To doubt’s point of view.
Its strength is not enough to carry
Even an iota of truth-weight.

10769

Unless you are sick
Of your mind-dissatisfaction,
You will not feel the feather-touch
Of God’s
Sweetness-Forgiveness-Oneness-Light.

10770

Your constant aspiration-heart
Unmistakably claims protection
From your uncertainty-mind.

10771

If your mind makes friends
With a time bomb,
How can you not be acquainted
With infinite sufferings?

10772

Only the heart’s
Sweetness and fondness-tears
Can procure admission to God’s
Compassion-Illumination-Heart-Home.

10773

What does insincerity-heart do?
What does impurity-mind do?
Together they spread and spread
Futility’s lethargy-plague.

10774

God creates His Vision-Soul-Birds
To sing with Him
His Heart’s Fulness-Fountain-Songs.

10775

The landlord of the heart-room
Is extremely strict.
He only allows the faith-tenant
To live there.

10776

If you can play
On your life’s transcendence-violin,
Only then will God grant you
His Heart’s Nectar-Nest.

10777

The seeker’s soulfulness-heart-shops
Are always open
To both God the Dreamer
And God the Lover.

10778

If you do not want insecurity-insects
To bite you,
Then every day
Learn a new cheerfulness-song
From God the Compassion-Illumination-Singer.

10779

How can you expect God
To wait for you
With His Illumination,
If you allow your life to be
Your mind’s desire-weight?

10780

Every day if you sing
Your heart’s oneness-song,
Then God will grant you
His own Heart’s Satisfaction-Song.

10781

All the keys are available
Either here or elsewhere,
But your life’s gratitude-heart-key
Is not to be found
Anywhere.

10782

If there is no enthusiasm
In the seeker’s heart,
Then he will never be able to enjoy
The God-Beauty of God’s
Birthless and deathless Time.

10783

Each realisation-bird has the capacity
To build a God-worshipping nest
Where blossoms God-Beauty’s Smile.

10784

My soul runs
On Heaven-Beauty’s road.
My heart runs
On earth-beauty’s road.
My mind runs
On life-curiosity’s road.

10785

Every time you forget to think of God,
God becomes
An unnecessary need in your life
And your heart’s oneness-cord with God
Is weakened.

10786

If you go to your mind’s
Doubt-meetings,
You are bound to lose
Your life’s God-pleasing
Brightness-dawn.

10787

I have seen many things in my life,
And many more things I shall see.
But one thing I have not seen
And, alas, shall never see,
And that is my mind’s
Climbing aspiration-steps.

10788

If you are your heart’s gratitude,
Then God will give you His own Hand
To sound your and your God’s
Victory-Gong.

10789

When you ask your mind
To show you the enlightenment-apartment,
It takes you immediately
Into its darkness-basement
And tells you
This is what you actually need.

10790

If you can uproot
Your mind’s long-cherished
Impurity-poison-tree,
God will grant you His Soul’s Sun
And His Heart’s Sunshine.

10791

Can you not see
That God has given you
Two invaluable things?
He has given you faith
To chase doubt.
He has given you confidence
To hire happiness.

10792

Your heart’s willingness-eye
Can serve at once
Both God the Dreamer
And man the seeker.

10793

If there is no devotion
In your heart,
Your life will never see
God-Beauty’s Sunrise.

10794

If you can bury
Your self-esteem,
God will grant you
His Heart of Satisfaction-Delight.

10795

One breathless moment
Can transform the doubter
In your mind
Into the God-lover
In your heart.

10796

Nobody asked you
To be in the grip
Of temptation-torture.
Nobody asked you
To remain in the thickness
Of desire-forest.

10797

If you can consciously remain
In God-Eternity’s Compassion-Home,
Then your mind will not pass through
A throng of thought-lives,
And you will not see
The quarrelling, fighting and strangling
Between life and death.

10798

There is not
A single human being on earth
Who does not and cannot love
The whispering wings of hope-bird
In his heart-garden.

10799

Because your heart
Is enchanted with expectation,
Your mind will be
Frustrated with confusion.

10800

O my imprisoned soul-love-bird,
Come out and fly
In your Supreme Lord’s
Silence-flooded Freedom-Sky.

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