Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 174

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17301

How I wish I could come
To my Lord Supreme
With my gratitude-heart
At lightning speed.

17302

O my mind,
You cannot say that I did not try
To transform you.
I tried, again and again,
Only to fail!

17303

O my mind,
All you need to be
Is simplicity-smile
And sincerity-cry.

17304

O my long-neglected heart-shrine,
Forgive me once more!
I am going to use you
Throughout Eternity.

17305

My seeker-friend,
How can you have even an iota of peace
If you allow your mind
To have butterfly-thoughts?

17306

Yesterday
Fear crippled me.
Today
Doubt is devouring me.
Alas, alas!

17307

My Lord,
May my life begin every day
With an aspiration-song
And a dedication-dance.

17308

If you do not sow
Patience-seed,
Can you ever collect
Satisfaction-harvest?

17309

The mind’s giant-doubt
Is no match for
The heart’s atom-faith.

17310

My Lord,
I agree with You
That I should not allow
My heart-flower to wilt
Any time
In this aspiration-life of mine.

17311

Each tiny doubt
Is a heavier-than-the-heaviest
Misfortune-carrier!

17312

O silence-sun, O silence-sun,
In your glow my heart feels
Infinity’s Peace.

17313

Be supremely brave!
Stand face-to-face
With ignorance-night!
It is bound to surrender
And disappear.

17314

Man denies God
Whenever he wants to.
Yet God loves man
Even though He does not have to.

17315

A purity-heart
Lives in God’s own
Oneness-Peace-Heart-Garden.

17316

My desire-transcendence
Is my
God-satisfaction-permanence.

17317

A doubting mind
Will eventually become
A totally defeated
Expectation-life.

17318

Even God’s Compassion-Eye
Is not a remedy
For man’s unwillingness-disease.

17319

Only the fulfilment
Of God-directed decisions
Can make my life
Beautiful, peaceful and fruitful.

17320

My Lord Supreme,
May my life be devoted
Only to Your
Heart-Satisfaction.

17321

Every day
My inner life and my outer life
Live on God’s
Forgiveness-Sweetness-Fragrance.

17322

May beauty’s hope
And duty’s promise
Flow towards
My aspiration’s future life.

17323

Inspiration-leaves
My mind needs.
Aspiration-tree
My heart needs.
Dedication-flower
My soul needs.
Realisation-fruits
My life needs.

17324

A sincere God-lover
Is an unhorizoned God-messenger
Of oneness-fulness-peace.

17325

The happiness of the soul
Dances only with
A surrender-blossomed heart.

17326

God wants me to have
Happiness-receptivity
So that at a moment’s pause
He can bless me
With His Infinity’s Love
And His Infinity’s Peace.

17327

Every day
My Compassion-Lord
Saves me from drowning
In my roaring pride-ocean.

17328

O my doubting mind,
Away you go!
I am so happy
To see you go.

17329

This morning
My Lord Supreme told my mind
That His Forgiveness-Licence
Had expired.

17330

My heart’s devotion-dawn
Is clearing
My mind’s cloudy sky.

17331

Each soulful thought
In the mind
Is a new prosperity-dawn
For the aspiring life.

17332

A self-giving God-lover
Always wins
The inner election.

17333

How I wish
I could always live
Inside
My peace-fragrance-heart-garden.

17334

May my heart’s intensity
Pilot my life’s
Enthusiasm-boat.

17335

When God forgave me,
My gratitude-heart
Immediately sparkled in my eyes.

17336

A mind-occupied life
Knows no divine joy.
A heart-empty life
Knows no divine joy.

17337

An unwilling mind
Is doomed to be
A crying failure.

17338

When I look within
I become my illumination-heart.
When I look without
I become my frustration-mind.

17339

To be absolutely perfect,
Exclude
Your mind-information
And include
Your heart-education.

17340

To my extreme sorrow,
Yesterday my mind’s disobedience-clouds
Befriended me.
To my extreme joy,
Today my heart’s sunbeams
Have befriended me.

17341

When I offer my Lord Supreme
My gratitude-heart,
He chooses me to be a passenger
In His Compassion-Heart-Boat.

17342

My mind,
I shall not allow you
To fool my heart
Ever again.

17343

In vain
My heart tells my mind
That each moment
Is a God-fulfilment-opportunity.

17344

Two things I desperately need:
A simplicity-loving mind
And a purity-blossoming heart.

17345

I perfectly know that
Doubt is synonymous with
A foul-weather night.

17346

My Lord Supreme,
First things first:
Do bless me to become
An obedience-heart-smile.

17347

If it is true
That my Lord Beloved Supreme
Is coming,
Then it is equally true
That I am finally
Becoming.

17348

Consciously and confidently
We must say good-bye
To the storms
Of our mind’s ignorance-night.

17349

I do not want to be
The master of earthly things.
I want to be
The brother of Heavenly things.

17350

The mind has to grow
Divinely.
The heart has to glow
Perfectly.
The life has to flow
Supremely.

17351

My tolerance
Is my Lord’s Illumination
Acting in and through me
For my perfection.

17352

A good thought
Must never be kept encaged.
Let it fly
In humanity’s oneness-freedom-sky.

17353

God the Aspiration
Is becoming very powerful in me.
How I wish
God the Satisfaction
To be pleased with me
As well!

17354

The mind’s assertion
I was yesterday.
The heart’s aspiration
I am today.
The soul’s realisation
Tomorrow I shall be.

17355

In the morning
When my heart cries for God,
God blesses me
With a flower-fragrance-breath.

17356

If you have
A sleeplessly God-surrendering heart,
Then your disappointment-mind
Cannot come into existence.

17357

My heart’s prayer-fragrance
Soulfully grants me
My life’s progress-delight.

17358

O my heart’s gratitude-teardrops,
Where are you?
I desperately need you
To win the Smile
Of my Beloved Lord Supreme.

17359

Even in the eyes of his enemies,
His heart is good
And his mind is great.

17360

I am so happy
That I have finally started
To piece together
My shattered aspiration-life.

17361

He who is supremely great
Cannot be tormented
By man’s ingratitude-thorns.

17362

Sacrifice
Is my inner name.
Determination
Is my outer name.
Lo, I have started tearing down
The towering walls of my doubts.

17363

My heart’s
Gratitude-breath
Is my life’s
Sacred flower-fragrance-garden.

17364

My Compassion-Lord Supreme
Every day tells me
That He will give me
Another chance.

17365

Who is your Master?
Not he who asks you
To touch his feet,
But he who asks you
To be his Eternity’s friend.

17366

Only an unconditional surrender-heart
Has the capacity
To learn fast, very fast,
The God-manifestation-game.

17367

O my mocking mind,
O my suspecting mind,
There shall definitely come a time
When you will be utterly disgusted
With yourself.

17368

My life’s outer success
May please my Lord Supreme,
But my heart’s inner progress
Definitely fulfils my Lord Supreme.

17369

I am sure that
Tomorrow’s heart-illumining dawn
Will teach
My God-searching mind.

17370

The happiness of my life
Cannot fly
Without my heart’s
Aspiration-wings.

17371

God needs
My pure heart.
I want
God’s sure Power.

17372

My meditation is
My aspiration-sky.
My meditation is
My dedication-ocean.

17373

Every day my heart
Takes a tremendous risk
In trusting my mind.

17374

Since God alone
Cannot satisfy me,
He takes help from
His Compassion-Light.

17375

At times
Unlearning is a blessing unparalleled
From Above.

17376

Alas,
A miniature aspiration-hill
Is my spiritual height.

17377

I must know
That nobody has forced
My aspiration-heart
To be in exile,
Nobody.

17378

Happy is the mind
That does not doubt.
Happier is the heart
That does not fear.
Happiest is the life
That does not surrender
To ignorance-night.

17379

Alas, where am I?
I am in between
A visible ocean
And an invisible shore.

17380

Each uncomely thought
Blights humanity’s life
And pains Divinity’s Heart.

17381

Be brave!
Cancel all your surrender-thoughts
To failure.

17382

Each time I meditate
On God’s Compassion-Eye,
God helps me to shed tears
Of gratitude-delight.

17383

The indifference of Heaven
And the helplessness of earth
Are unfathomably painful
To each other.

17384

Every morning
I breathe in hope-breath
And breathe out fulfilling promises.

17385

A reality-dream
Shall fulfil
Humanity’s God-fulfilment-prayer.

17386

The suspicion-mind
Is a perfect stranger
To humanity’s aspiration
And Divinity’s Compassion.

17387

Everybody clings to
Desire-fulfilment-dream.
Alas,
Satisfaction-reality
Never blossoms.

17388

Every day
My gratitude-heart beckons
God’s Compassion-flooded Heart.

17389

Complexity-clouds
Will without fail
One day surrender
To simplicity’s transformation-sun.

17390

Each desire-story
Eventually surrenders
To aspiration-song.

17391

How can you ever
Feed and please God
In His own Way,
If you continue enjoying
Your doubting mind,
Insecure heart
And impure breath?

17392

God’s Will
Will begin to prevail in your life
If you can
Quite frequently and freely
Show your enthusiasm-smile.

17393

A heart of oneness-peace
Will always find a home
In everybody’s heart.

17394

Your soul has done
Countless good deeds for you.
Can you not do
A good deed for your soul,
Just by offering it your gratitude-heart?

17395

Only a seeker
With unconditional surrender
Will be able to build
A new world-promise.

17396

How can I make God happy?
Only by serving God
In God’s own Way.

17397

How do I serve God?
I serve God
With my gratitude-tears.

17398

If you can enjoy
God-oriented thoughts,
Then your mind’s bondage-chains
Will disappear.

17399

Inspiration and aspiration
Are not man-made
But God-blossomed.

17400

My Lord,
May my aspiration-heart
Be given the chance
To hold Your Compassion-Eye
Just for a moment.

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