Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 157

15601

God’s Eyes bless us
Every day.
God’s Heart forgives us
Every day.
God’s Soul inspires us
And encourages us
To be His choice instruments
Every day.

15602

God wants the faith
Of my purity-heart
To tame
My doubt-monkey-mind.

15603

When I run in my outer life,
God blesses me
With His Compassion-Eye.
When I dive in my inner life,
God blesses me
With His Satisfaction-Heart.

15604

Every day
You have to reconfirm
Your aspiration-reservation
On your heart-flight.

15605

Man’s sweetness-heart-hope
Is tremendously loved
By God’s Fulness-Heart-Promise.

15606

Our outer journey
Needs God’s Compassion-Eye
For its encouragement.
Our inner journey
Needs God’s Satisfaction-Heart
To reach its destination.

15607

Poor God,
I have punished You for so many years
With my desire-thoughts.
From now on I shall love You and adore You
With my aspiration-heart-oneness.

15608

Go forward, go forward!
Dive deep within, dive deep within!
The cosmic game, in your case,
Is not yet over.
You must accomplish more,
Infinitely more,
For the Lord Supreme.

15609

Can you not forget
Your mind’s insecurity,
Your mind’s demands,
Your mind’s unwillingness?
All your mind’s undivine qualities,
Can you not for a moment forget?
If you can,
Yours will be progress unimaginable!

15610

An ingratitude-seeker feels
That God’s Vision-Eye
Does not lead him and protect him.

15611

With my heart’s aspiration-cry
And my life’s dedication-smile,
Every day I try to free
At least one human being
From the fetters of ignorance-night.

15612

Do not wait
For God to cry for you!
Do everything devotedly and soulfully
Immediately,
So that you can see God smiling
And prevent God from crying.

15613

Every day
God puts the “Welcome” sign
On His Door.
He never uses
The “Do not disturb” sign.

15614

Your ignorance-dream-boat
Has to be shattered
Before God gives you
His own Eternity’s Vision-Dream-Boat.

15615

If you only conceal your problems,
And do not offer them
To your Lord Supreme,
Then they will become
Infinitely stronger.

15616

Your heart likes to sing —
Not to get God’s Attention,
But to proclaim God’s Compassion
And Satisfaction on earth.

15617

O tears of my mind,
I do not trust you,
I do not need you,
I want nothing to do with you!
You are false,
You are deceitful!
You want to feed me
With false satisfaction-promises.

15618

My mind is waiting
For the disappearance
Of my heart-faith.

My heart is waiting
For the appearance
Of my mind’s transformation-face.

15619

You must listen
To God’s Heart-Advice
Before you begin
To spend time with your mind.

15620

The disappearance
Of your mind-problems
Was not due to
What you said
Or what you did,
But because God wants you,
For His own inner Reason,
To be a choice instrument of His.

15621

Nobody has forced you
To swim in the sea
Of multitudinous problems.
It is you who wanted,
In secrecy supreme,
To enjoy this present life of yours.

15622

His heart-progress
Has been thwarted
By his exorbitant
Mind-success.

15623

There is not a single mortal
Who has not received
A Compassion-Call from God.
But there are so many human beings
Who shamelessly do not respond
To God’s Call.

15624

Alas, poor God every day receives
False hunger-cries
From humanity.

15625

There is nothing wrong
If you cry like a child
To draw God’s Attention.
Only if you do not cry
Is everything wrong with you
And everything wrong for you!

15626

When I look at my heart,
I feel so sad
That it has taken upon itself
The torture of my doubt-mind.

15627

God,
I have only one prayer.
That prayer is to love You only
And also, more and more,
At every moment.

15628

When I cherish
Doubt, suspicion and negativity
In my mind,
God suffers from a storm
In His Oneness-Heart-Life.

15629

My Beloved Compassion-Lord Supreme
Forgives me
Even when I offer Him
Unhealthy and unsolicited advice.

15630

God does not know,
For Himself,
What relaxation is.
He knows only one thing:
The illumination of mankind.

15631

O my strangling vital,
Can you not see
That God is standing
Right in front of you?
How stupid you are
To refuse to speak to God,
Your Beloved Lord!

15632

There is only one thing that always
Makes us unhappy and miserable,
And that is our deep fear of surrender
To God’s oneness-loving Will.

15633

O my dissatisfaction-vital,
You will never be satisfied
Unless you are ready
To have a heart-to-heart talk
With God’s Compassion.

15634

Obedience, constant obedience:
It is you who bring to me
From my Lord Supreme
Freedom-perfection to enjoy my life.

15635

The sword that I see
Inside the Eye of my Lord Supreme
Is not meant to destroy me,
But to frighten my unwilling mind
And illumine my God-fearing life.

15636

Although God receives
Message after message from humanity,
He does not mind
Reading its messages
Or hearing its messages.
But when He answers,
If humanity does not respond
To His Request,
Then definitely He minds.

15637

When the mind and the vital
Perform on my life-stage,
I watch them,
But with endless embarrassment.

15638

Whoever dreams
Of God’s Peace on earth
Is a beautiful, illumining
And all-fulfilling child of God.

15639

O my mind,
You have all along
Been an attention-monger.
Can you not now become
An aspiration-lover?
Try,
You are bound to succeed!

15640

I do not deserve it,
But God always keeps me
In His Compassion-Heart-Boat.

15641

My soul’s promise-sun
Will be fulfilled before long
By my heart’s breathless cries.

15642

God’s Compassion-Light
Knows no foreigners.
Therefore,
Everybody can knock
At His universal Heart-Door,
And He will immediately open it.

15643

My mind,
You are losing yourself
In hallucination-sky
With your doubts and suspicions.
In that way you will never be able
To perfect the world.
Never!

15644

To escape the mind’s
Torrential doubt-rain,
I soulfully, prayerfully and safely
Take shelter
Inside my faith-protected heart-nest.

15645

My purity-heart
Not only admires
But literally adores
All-giving God-lovers.

15646

To look at God’s Feet
Is not enough.
You have to place
Your life’s humility-breath
At His Feet.

15647

It is too much
For my faithful heart
To answer each and every
Absurd question
Of my doubt-cherishing mind.

15648

If you have a mind
Of great intentions,
If you have a heart
Of good aspiration,
And if you have a life
Of sleepless dedication,
Then your nature’s perfection
Cannot remain a far cry.

15649

A false teacher
And a false student
Have a very deplorable thing
in common:
An idle promise.

15650

In the inner world,
Whoever dreams of peace
Is undoubtedly a God-lover.
In the outer world,
Whoever works for peace
Is undoubtedly a God-server.

15651

Only your gratitude-heart
Has the capacity to value
God’s Satisfaction-Smile.

15652

Show the world what you have:
A dynamic promise.
Show God what you are:
A helpless breath.

15653

This world of ours
Is extremely familiar
With two hard realities:
A shallow mind
And a narrow heart.

15654

To bask in your heart’s
Happiness-sun,
Never be inside
The cave of frustration-darkness.

15655

Every day
I pray to see
My heart’s sunrise.

Every day
I meditate to be
A citizen of my soul’s
Vision-flooded clime.

15656

I do not pray to God
For sweet dreams.
I pray to God
To become the smile
Of my self-giving realities.

15657

If you do not have
A soulful love
For God the creation,
You will not be able
To sing your heart-melody
For any human being.

15658

When I heard my soul’s
Final departure-song,
I cried for my loss.
And, again, I smiled
Because of my soul’s gain.

15659

A mind of indecision
And a heart of hesitation
Create tremendous, sleepless sorrows
Inside the Compassion-Heart
Of our Lord Supreme.

15660

O my mind,
When are you going to say
A final good-bye
To your doubtful life?
Do you not think
That it is high time for you
To long for genuine satisfaction
For yourself
And for the satisfaction-hungry being
Inside you?

15661

What is my sorrow?
My sorrow is my own creation.
How did I create it?
I created it
From my God-unawareness
And from my God-unwillingness.

15662

O my mind,
You have been telling me
That you have nowhere to turn.
You have tried
Each and every place.
If so,
Then try one more place:
God’s Compassion-Heart-Nest.

15663

My Master’s all-illumining voice
Is my choice.
My Master’s choice
Is my mind,
Empty of doubt-songs.

15664

O my mind,
Give to my heart
Your unwillingness.
Give!
Give!
Do not keep it from my heart!
To your wide surprise,
My heart will transform
Your unwillingness
Into an ever-ready willingness.

15665

God’s Forgiveness-Feet
Invite
Not only my willingness-heart
But also my unwillingness-mind.
But my willingness-heart is invited
To be His hero-warrior
And my unwillingness-mind is invited
To be His fault-announcer.

15666

Each soulful thought
Is a climbing step
On my way
To God-realisation-summit.

15667

O my mind-tyrant,
How do you dare think
That you will be able
To lord it over me
Forever and forever?
I believe in God’s
Unconditional Grace
And I believe in your
Total transformation.

15668

I tell my Lord Supreme
That I have tried my best.
My Lord Supreme
Laughs and laughs at me,
And then He says,
“You can and you must try
Ten million times harder
To please Me and fulfil Me.”

15669

The easiest way to realise God
Is either to cry helplessly
Like a child
Or to establish
A God-surrendered oneness-life.

15670

God will give me a copy
Of His Self-Transcendence-Song
If I want to do only one thing:
To strike His Victory-Gong.

15671

When we fail to pass
The God-Justice-Examination,
God immediately blesses us
So we will try and succeed
In His Compassion-Height-Examination.

15672

May each thought of mine
Become as beautiful
As the prayer-dawn
Of my flower-heart.

15673

There is no light
At the mind’s unwillingness-door.
It is all darkness,
Darker than the darkest.

15674

O my mind,
You may think that your life
Has plenty of time.
But God tells me that His Will
Does not have that much time
For you.

15675

Why do I have to listen
To the dry philosophy
Of my truth-confusing mind
When I am fortunate enough to hear
The sweetness-song
Of my God-loving heart?

15676

You want to know
Why your heart’s aspiration-plant
Has withered.
Alas, can you not see
What you have done?
You have allowed your doubting mind
To challenge and defeat
Your oneness-blossoming
Aspiration-heart-plant.

15677

Each cheerfulness-smile
From my heart
Gives me the strength of a lion
And the beauty and purity
Of a larger-than-the-largest
Heart-garden.

15678

My farewell to my doubting mind
Is a task well completed.
My welcome to my surrender-life
Is a task well begun.

15679

O my imperfection-friend,
I call you my friend
Precisely because
I have not given up on you,
And also because
You are more than willing to change.

15680

God has not asked me
To count the steps
That lead to Heaven.
He has given me the job
Only of increasing
My heart’s gratitude-speed
So I can climb up the fastest.

15681

Every human life
Has many enemies,
But God-disobedience-enemy
Is the most dangerous.

15682

O my mind,
Your sincerity-strength
Has surprised you.
Now use your determination-strength.
It will surprise you
Infinitely more!

15683

Is there any truth-seeker
Who is not misunderstood?
Is there any God-lover
Who is not misunderstood?
Is there any God-representative
Who is not misunderstood?
Is there anything divine
That is not misunderstood?

15684

Misunderstanding
Is the most ancient disease.
But God has taken up the bold challenge
To conquer misunderstanding
With His Compassion-flooded Eye
And Forgiveness-flooded Heart.

15685

My heart plants hope-seeds
Inside each and every heart-garden.
But alas,
My mind does not plant
Even one hope-seed
Inside its jungle-life.

15686

Time is the sovereign
Of the foolish mind.
Time is the sovereign
Of the stupidity-mind.
But time is the most willing slave
Of the wisdom-soul.

15687

Nothing is important
In my outer life.
In my inner life,
Everything is important —
Especially the quality
Of my heart’s aspiration-cry
And the quantity of my soul’s
God-manifestation-smiles.

15688

My mind
Is always on the lookout
For self-interest-joy.
My heart
Is always on the lookout
For God-Satisfaction-Delight.

15689

Try to remain always
On the meditation-road.
Once you leave the meditation-road,
You are bound to enter into
Ignorance-mud, ignorance-dirt
And ignorance-clay.

15690

There can be no joy
In living
Either in jealousy-town
Or in insecurity-village.

15691

Because it is so easy
To betray the heart,
The mind does it every day.

Because it is so difficult
To love the mind,
The heart accepts the challenge
And does it daily,
Plus satisfactorily.

15692

God loves to cradle
Fondly and proudly
The breath of a oneness-purity-heart.

15693

Do you think God is happy
When He sees you crawling
With your incompetence-limbs?
No, He is not!
He is more than ready
To bless you
With the fastest speed-legs.
You can have them
For the soulful asking.

15694

Frustrated desires
Precede destruction.
Destruction precedes
Humanity’s complete failure.

15695

O my frustration-vital,
I have come to realise that
Unless you are ruthlessly battered
You are not going to change
Your life-style at all.

15696

Divinity’s Blessing
We can receive
Only when we purify our mind,
Energise our heart
And unify our life.

15697

Each time
I make a sweet promise
To my Lord Supreme,
He blesses me
With a new, sacred life-breath.

15698

O my mind’s
Overconfidence-ego,
Your hopeless and helpless downfall
Will take place infinitely sooner
Than you can ever imagine!

15699

God tells me
That He has seen me playing
Many, many times
My self-torture-game.
Now He wants me
To watch and participate in
His Heart-Rapture-Game.

15700

Your heart’s sunlit mountain-summit
You are going to climb without fail
In this incarnation.
Just be genuine in mind
And pure in heart!

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