Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 70

6901

Your gratitude-heart
Brings down the satisfaction-bird
From God’s Heart
And helps it land
On your life’s dedication-hand.

6902

Unless you free yourself
Totally
From attachment-anxiety,
Peace of mind will always remain
A far cry.

6903

I need only the heart
That is expert
In performing oneness-acts.

6904

If you hide
Behind doubt-partition,
Then yours will be the life
Of eventual destruction.

6905

He is always in pursuit
Of excellence,
Although his life
Has not been blessed
With even a shadow
Of excellence.

6906

In the morning
His heart shows his Beloved Supreme
His aspiration-report card.

In the evening
His life shows his Beloved Supreme
His transformation-report card.

6907

Every day, every hour
Develop only one thing:
The power of dedication,
Selfless and unconditional.

6908

Alas,
What I need
Is a dynamic vital!
Alas,
What I have
Is a vandalising vital!

6909

No wonder you have failed
In your life’s examination!
You have failed because
You have a tremendous shortage
Of surrender-gratitude-supplies.

6910

Every day
His heart devotedly goes
And soulfully learns
From his silence-teaching soul.

6911

There is definitely
A deep well of faith
Inside you.
Search for it!
You will someday
Without fail
Discover it.

6912

All roads, no doubt,
Lead to God.
But life’s surrender-road
Is always the shortest.

6913

Insecurity itself is a strong force
That weakens the human in us
And does not allow us
To see the divine in us.

6914

Can you not see
That your life’s self-importance-tree
Is totally destroyed
By the frowns of the world?

6915

You can easily escape
Your mind’s illusion-net
If you increase every day
Your life of faith,
Either in your soul
Or in your heart,
The representative of the soul.

6916

Each soul
Is the messenger
Of a supreme self-control.

6917

There is no difference
Between name and fame
When playing life’s useless
Ignorance-game.

6918

If you are your life’s
Self-importance,
Then how can you expect
God’s Satisfaction-Assurance
In you and for you?

6919

Your life-boat must not carry
Your unaspiring mind,
Your impure vital
And your lethargic body.

6920

Each desire is dangerous.
Each desire is ferocious.
Each desire has to be avoided
As soon as you become aware
Of its very existence.

6921

The mind acts like a monkey.
Again,
The mind has the capacity
To become a pure saint
And act like a pure saint.

6922

The soul is a stranger
To ignorance-forest
Although its body, vital, mind
And even heart
Are forest-dwellers.

6923

Everything in my life
Has turned to cries,
Even my heart’s
Soulful songs.

6924

He became what he saw:
A sea of peace,
A sky of light
And a mountain of delight.

6925

Every day try to increase
Your childlike ways.
Then God’s Compassion-Eye
Will teach you how to play
With God’s Satisfaction-Heart.

6926

Be pure, be confident
And try to be perfect
By declaring a cease-fire
In your mind’s destruction-world.

6927

He comes to God’s
Compassion-Height-Home frequently,
But rarely does he come
To God’s Justice-Light-Palace.

6928

O my body,
Can you not become
Something other than
A shameless and useless shadow
Of lethargy?

6929

Before a desire is fulfilled,
Life is utter helplessness.
After a desire is fulfilled,
Life is meaningless uselessness.

6930

If you wait and wait
To break your fate,
Your fate will destroy
Your soulful and powerful
Inner capacities.

6931

Who told you
That your fate can never be changed?
Fate is destined to be changed,
For God does need you
As His supreme partner.

6932

Know for certain
That the hour has come for you
To discard your desire-life
And embrace your aspiration-life.

6933

The unaspiring human mind
And impossibility
Are two eternal friends
And are fond of living together.

6934

You want
The vision of victory
Without the willingness
Of aspiration.
Indeed, an impossible task!

6935

His heart is too pure
To be jealous.
His mind is too strong
To be doubtful.
His life is too beautiful
To be imperfect.

6936

He wants to possess
And be possessed by the world.
Unconditional self-giving
Is not his life-style.

6937

His aspiring heart
Lives on hope.
His unaspiring mind
Lives on the rumours of hope.

6938

God for God’s sake
Is a most difficult experience
For a desire-man to have.

6939

If you think that your future
Will be infinitely heavier
Than your present,
Then meditate on God soulfully.
He will cheerfully place
Your future-weight
On His Shoulder.

6940

All along
You have heard of God,
You have talked about God.
Can you not try, from now on,
To become sleeplessly one
With God?

6941

Although he has allowed his mind
To be drowned in destructive thoughts,
He has kept his purity-heart
Only for his Beloved Supreme
To enjoy.

6942

The perfection of life
Can never be
An earthly chance,
But only
A Heavenly choice.

6943

Do you not see
That the Satisfaction-Smile
Of God’s Compassion-Eye
In you
Has completely stopped?

6944

Do not worry
If you have lost God’s Message
In your mind’s ignorance-mire.
Just ask your heart
To beg God
To grant you another Message.
But be sure, this time,
Not to lose it!

6945

From time immemorial
There have been two partners:
Man’s willingness
And
God’s Fulness.

6946

No matter how bad you are
In God’s inner School,
He will never allow you
To become a drop-out,
For He considers your failure
As His own failure.

6947

You have a mind
Rich in simplicity.
You have a heart
Rich in sincerity.
You have a life
Rich in purity.
Therefore
God tells the world
That you are rich in divinity.

6948

At the end of the desire-night
Of each human mind,
There shall definitely dawn
An aspiration-day of the heart.

6949

You are absolutely doing
The right thing
By asking your desire-life
To be extremely proud
Of your aspiration-life.

6950

His is the divine heart
That every day goes smilingly
Around and around
His soul’s illumination-circle.

6951

For the mind to be confused
Is not an unusual thing.
For the heart to be illumined
Is not an unusual thing.
For the soul to be perfect
Is not an unusual thing.

6952

Something is missing
In his mind:
Faith.

Something is missing
In his heart:
Love.

Something is missing
In his life:
Satisfaction.

6953

Since you have not given
Anything worthwhile
To your Beloved Supreme,
Try at least to give Him
The remaining years
Of your life.

6954

The divine Will
Is a special Messenger of God
That comes directly from Heaven
To fight for human beings
Against ignorance-titan.

6955

You can climb fast, very fast,
The progress-tree
If you give what you have:
Inspiration-drops
And aspiration-flames.

6956

The suspicion-mind
Has to suffer
From an agonising inner marathon
In the world of aspiration.

6957

You want to live
In a world of temptation.
Again,
It is you who want to see
The face of satisfaction.
I tell you,
They never go together!

6958

If you feel that you have gone
Too high to fall,
Then you are
Completely mistaken.

6959

A sincerity-heart
Has the capacity to start
A peaceful race
In its Heavenward journey.

6960

If you think
That pleasure-life is the only life,
Then you are using a dictionary
That is consulted by rank fools
Every day.

6961

Do you not think
That it is high time
For you to rebuild
Your heart’s aspiration-temple?

6962

If you are not grateful
To God
For His unconditional Love,
Then one day you will be doomed
To a harvest of sorrows.

6963

There are only three thoughts
That please me:
I love God’s Eye.
I need God’s Heart.
I shall fulfil God’s Vision
In me.

6964

The sweetest and the richest
Of all occupations
Is when I think of God
And I feel God
As my Eternity’s own, very own.

6965

Never stop trying!
Who knows when God
Is about to come
And stand right in front of you?

6966

Who says
That man knows nothing?
He does know how to kick hard
God’s Compassion-Eye
Every day.

6967

Even my mind’s gloomy thoughts
Will someday be transformed
Into my heart’s blossoming smile.

6968

If you have no time to think
That you are old,
Then you also have no time to think
That God’s Compassion will be
Of no avail in your life.

6969

If you are a citizen
Of two worlds,
Desire and aspiration,
Then God will not show you
His Heart’s hallowed Temple.

6970

The best thing for you
Is to discard
Your mind’s bottomless
Frustration-night.

6971

You are looking for God’s
Forgiveness-Heart.
God is looking for your
Aspiration-heart
And dedication-life.

6972

I am of no use to God,
Yet God thinks,
Out of His infinite Bounty,
That I am a choice instrument
Of His.

6973

You cannot depend
On your eyes.
You cannot depend
Even on your heart.
But you can definitely depend
On God’s Compassion-Smile.

6974

On earth
To find Heaven
Is not a difficult task.
Ask your gratitude-heart!
It will show you where Heaven is.

6975

No calamity is greater
Than thinking of
One’s own life’s inferiority.

6976

Usually we do two things
Every day:
We ignore God’s Will
And we fail to implore
God’s Forgiveness.

6977

May the silence-blessing
Of silence-night
Prepare me to fight
Against the sound of day.

6978

My Lord Supreme,
My feeling of distance
Between You and me
Has deepened,
Not because You love me less,
But because I am trying
To be self-dependent.

6979

The difference
Between pride and humility
Is this:
Pride wants to manifest itself;
Humility is manifested
By God Himself.

6980

His mind is rejected
Because it is impure.
His heart is excluded
Because it is hopeless.

6981

The hour has come for me
To appreciate my heart’s purity
And not to live in the neighbourhood
Of my mind’s impurity.

6982

His mind loves
The beauty of the moon.
His heart worships
The radiance of the sun.

6983

If you speak
From the humility-podium,
Then sooner than the soonest
You will conquer the heart
Of mankind.

6984

The true meaning of life
Is to know what God wants
From your heart
And what God does not want
From your mind.

6985

You can generate joy
Only through
Your heart’s openness
And your soul’s oneness.

6986

Replace your frustration-vital
With your aspiration-heart.
This is the only way
That you can move forward
Towards your destined goal.

6987

If you do not renew
Your aspiration,
You will have to live
With your life’s
Helplessly and hopelessly
Lost hope.

6988

To allow ignorance
To age and die
Is a hopelessly stupid act
Of the human mind.

6989

He is not worthy of receiving
Even God’s Compassion-Award,
Not to speak of
God’s Satisfaction-Award!

6990

The mind that is lost
In the quagmire of desire
Cannot enjoy the feast
Of God’s Satisfaction-Delight.

6991

Just because
You are better than the worst,
Do not think
That your contributions
To the world at large
Are worthy of acceptance!

6992

Cut off
Your mind’s illusion-cord
To see
Your heart’s illumination-flames.

6993

My Beloved Supreme
Counts on my soul’s full support
Here on earth.

6994

Alas,
Each human being is doomed
To a serious birth defect:
Self-doubt!

6995

He has no faith
In his future life.
He lives on the messages
Of the ancient past.
They are guiding and shall guide
His life.

6996

You are critical.
That means
You don’t think or believe
That you can ever be perfect.

6997

To keep your heart young
All the time,
Ask your mind to be pure,
Ask your vital to be simple,
Ask your life to be self-giving.

6998

An ingratitude-heart
Is nothing other than
A torture-room of death.

6999

My heart of unconditional surrender
To my Lord’s Will
Is the general manager
Of my life.

7000

You do not have to say
Anything important.
You do not have to do
Anything important.
Just feel that God only
Is important in your life.

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