Peace-Blossom-Fragrance, part 6

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501.

God's Body
Is God's Power.
God's Heart
Is God's Peace.

502.

Peace
Does not magnify our lives.
Peace
Just simplifies our lives.

503.

No man-acquired power
Can stand against
The peace of the soul.

504.

Peace
Is not the fault-finder
Of the world.
Peace
Is the fault-mender
Of the world.

505.

Love may not necessarily
Be peace,
But peace is unmistakably
The Love
Of God the Father-Creator
And God the Mother-Creation.

506.

Without peace,
Either in the inner world
Or in the outer world
We cannot go beyond
The world-devouring danger zone.

507.

The inner peace
And the outer perfection —
We must love them alike.

508.

Peace
Has two private tutors:
God's Perfection-Eye
And God's Satisfaction-Heart.

509.

Peace
Is the master-key
To open up
All the aspiration-heart-doors
Of mankind.

510.

If you plant
Good thought-seeds,
You will be able to gather
A bumper peace-harvest.

511.

You can perform
Your own miracle
If you just sow the seed
Of a world-transforming
Peace-smile.

512.

If you do not have peace
To accompany you
To your God-destination,
You will never be able
To be successful.

513.

If you pray and meditate
Self-givingly,
Rest assured that
Peace-bird will ask you
To sit on its wings
For a world-tour.

514.

Man's history
Has countless pages
To give man joy.
God's History
Has only one page:
Peace,
All-illumining and all-fulfilling.

515.

Without a life of prayer and meditation,
We can never have peace-dove
At our disposal,
Either by chance or by choice.

516.

It is from God's
Unconditional Self-giving
That we grow into a
Universal God-peace-tree.

517.

When I am
A peace-empty mind,
In God's Eye,
I am nothing.

518.

When I am
A peace-flooded heart,
I am not just something
But everything
To God.

519.

I never knew
And I did not want to know
Who I was:
A peace-devouring mind
And a peace-supplying heart.

520.

The silence of my mind
Is surprisingly potent.
The peace of my heart
Is omnipotent.

521.

In secrecy supreme,
Even the unaspiring human mind
Is certain that peace
Is the only answer
To all world-questions.

522.

When I accompany
A man of peace
On the road to my
Satisfaction-destination,
I take the shortest short cut.

523.

Before peace
Became my possession,
No goal was achievable.

524.

Not only the worst in us
But also the best in us
Needs peace every day.

525.

Peace
Is at once
God's greatest creation
And man's highest achievement.

526.

Among my heart's
God-pleasing songs,
My peace-songs
God considers by far the best.

527.

Peace
Does not have to justify
Its divine existence on earth.
It is we who have to justify
Our existence
By embodying, revealing
And manifesting peace on earth.

528.

A God-lover
Sleeplessly loves to listen
To stories about peace
From God,
The Peace-Storyteller.

529.

When I am able to serve peace
To the peace-hungry mankind,
I feel that I am a true citizen
Of this world -
And not otherwise.

530.

I feel enormous peace
In my life
When my life-boat plies
Between my mind's honesty-shore
And my heart's receptivity-shore.

531.

God tells me that He knows
No sweeter melody
Than my heart's
Peace-fountain-melody.

532.

My peace and I are afraid
Of watching the race
Between my mind's chaos
And my life's catastrophe.

533.

My peace and I proudly enjoy
The oneness-run
Of my soul's compassion
And my heart's aspiration.

534.

May my peace every day prepare
A new God-shrine
Where I can worship God
With new willingness,
New enthusiasm
And new self-givingness.

535.

Now that I have deliberately placed
My mind's narrow sight
Inside my heart's unhorizoned vision,
My life has become
All-embracing and all-fulfilling peace.

536.

When I do not have peace,
I say to myself,
"It is so exhausting
To love even one person
In the world."

537.

When I do have peace,
I say to myself,
"It is so encouraging,
Illumining and fulfilling
To love each and every human being
On earth."

538.

The mind's peace-run
Covers a shorter-than-the-shortest
Distance.

539.

The heart's peace-run
Has neither a starting point
Nor a finish line.

540.

I get peace,
Abiding and fulfilling,
Only when I write down
God's Messages to my life
With my heart's tears.

541.

I was mistakenly searching for peace
In my mind's thickening clouds.
I am now rightly looking for peace
In my heart's climbing
Aspiration-flames.

542.

O my soul's peace,
I beg of you,
Do not leave me alone
With my elephant-heavy
Ignorance-night.

543.

O my stupid mind,
Why do you think that
You do not belong
To my soul's peace-kingdom?
Can you not see that
My soul's peace-kingdom
Is so compassionately and lovingly
Beckoning you?

544.

If you can receive peace
Unreservedly from God,
You will be able to give God
Everything that you have
And everything that you are.

545.

I shall feel completely safe
And satisfied
Only if peace brings me
To my Heaven-Home
At my earth-journey's close.

546.

God asks me to speak
To His creation
With His Peace-Heart
And not with
My blaring trumpet-mind.

547.

The outer fortune —
Name and fame —
Comes only to go.
The inner fortune —
Peace —
Comes and occupies
Its permanent seat
In the aspiration-hearts
Of God-lovers.

548.

Be sure
That what you want is
Peace
And not comfort.

549.

Peace
Does not believe in
Any opposition or division.
Peace
Believes only in
Oneness-connection.

550.

Make no demand
On the future.
Peace
Will come and garland you.

551.

What is peace?
Peace
Is Eternity's Infinity.

552.

Discover where peace really is.
Peace
Is in God-dependence
Solely.

553.

Let tomorrow
Worry about tomorrow.
You just breathe in today's
Peace.

554.

I cannot separate
My peace-wish
From my peace-goal.

555.

Do not allow worry
To devour you.
Just face the truth.
Peace will immediately
Befriend you.

556.

I do not want to discover
My peace
In Eternity and Infinity.
I want to discover
My peace
Inside my sweet little heart-nest.

557.

Adjust yourself
To the stark realities
Of your life.
Peace is bound to take your side.

558.

Expectation
Eagerly arrives.
Peace
Secretly departs.

559.

Alas, my expectation
And my peace of mind
Are never on good terms.

560.

Peace
Is the fruit
Of my God-surrendered action
And not of my cherished
Imaginary expectation.

561.

O my Power-God,
I can definitely wait for You.
O my Peace-God,
My heart can bear no further delay.

562.

If you allow
Others to speak first,
Others to go first,
Others to become first,
Peace will, without fail,
Come to you first.

563.

Keep trying, keep crying, keep smiling.
Someday peace will definitely tell you,
"I am coming, I am coming."

564.

Do you really want
To control yourself?
Then look at the eye of peace
And feel the heart of peace
Within you.

565.

First things first.
You do not have to know
The secret of peace.
You just have to know
The secret of self-transcendence.
Your self-transcendence
Will surround your entire being
With peace.

566.

Before God grants me
Peace,
He demands my promise-declaration
And not my problem-demonstration.

567.

You must first know
More precisely about yourself
Than about anybody else,
And then work
On your perfect perfection.
Lo, peace is standing
At your life's door,
Smiling and smiling.

568.

God can and does do everything
In and through others
As well as through you.
This truth will definitely help you
To have peace of mind.

569.

To have peace,
Be the one who says
A permanent farewell
To self-indulgence
And self-pity.

570.

Spend considerable time
In finding sterling qualities
In others,
Rather than in finding
Their blazing faults.
Your mind will be full
Of peace-blossoms.

571.

Do not spurn
The poor world.
Just burn
Your mind's desire-nets.
Peace-plenitude
Your mind will have.

572.

The reasoning mind
And the fulfilling peace
Are the North Pole
And the South Pole.

573.

God is a perfect gentleman.
He is not satisfied
With His infinite Peace alone.
He wants to share His Peace
With each and every creation
Of His Vision.

574.

How difficult it is
To live on earth
Without the heart
Of a peace-sea.

575.

Unless we are genuine God-lovers,
The peace we offer
To the world at large
Is indeed a counterfeit peace.

576.

Peace
Moves around unarmed,
Yet peace can challenge
The entire world
Of worries, anxieties and doubts.

577.

Our inner divinity wakes up
Inside our heart's peace
When the all-illumining soul
Beckons us.

578.

God's peace-birds
Eat not only from God's Hand,
But also from
The bleeding heart of humanity.

579.

O seeker,
If you really want to please God
At every moment of your life,
You must every day renew
Your soul's peace-vows.

580.

On the battlefield of life,
Eventually the buffets of time
Will surrender
To God's Peace-Manifestation on earth.

581.

O peace,
Do not forget to come
And bless my entire being
Before I pass beyond
The curtain of Eternity.

582.

We try to cling
To God's Compassion-Peace.
God tries to cling
To our satisfaction-smile.

583.

Never allow doubt-thorns
To ruthlessly invade
Your mind-peace
If you want God
To remain in His own
Transcendental Delight-Height.

584.

Peace
Is the vision-beauty
Of ancient dawns.
Peace
Is the vision-dream-choice
Of modern noons.

585.

Alas, why do I so often allow
My mind's God-disobedience
To mar and torture
My heart's peace?

586.

My doubtful and suspicious mind's
Totally unexpected
Sincere peace-letters
Please God more than my heart's
Always expected
Love-devotion-surrender-letters.

587.

God is extremely hungry
Every day
For humanity's peace-prayers.

588.

My heart's peace-breath
Is, indeed,
My Lord's Satisfaction-Sun.

589.

A sincere seeker gets peace
In profuse measure
Even from his very attempt
To scale Heaven-Heights.

590.

Now that my mind has become,
Like my heart,
A peace-fountain,
The desire-world fails
To enter into my mind.

591.

When your eyes
Are closed to Truth,
Your heart loses its joy.
When your heart
Is closed to Truth,
Your life loses all its peace.

592.

Peace
Is the smile
That unites God's Compassion-Eye
With man's aspiration-heart.

593.

If we do not pray and meditate
Unconditionally,
We shall shatter
God's Peace-Manifestation-Dreams
Here on earth.

594.

Be not afraid of peace.
Peace is the divine Truth
That makes,
Not the undivine falsehood
That breaks.

595.

My Lord,
How can I ever erase
My deplorable past?
"My child,
Create a peace-garden
With the tears of your heart
Inside your mind."

596.

When we cherish
An unforgiving minute
Inside our mind,
We become the peace-loser
Immediately.

597.

God blesses us
With a peace-flooded mind
When our heart's eagerness
Runs, flies and dives
With God's Readiness.

598.

Peace
Is the only runner
That always wins
Humanity's perfection-race
And Divinity's Satisfaction-Goal.

599.

When the heart is eager to love
And the life is eager to serve,
Only then is God eager to bless
The heart and life
With His Heart's
Compassion-flooded Peace.

600.

Whenever I have
A profound meditation,
I am fed by the sweet smile
Of God's all-illumining
And all-fulfilling Peace.

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