433. THE SAME OLD THOUGHTS
The same old thoughts:  God does not love me,
  God does not want me,
    I am left all alone.
      I was nothing,
        I am nothing,
        I shall be nothing.
These are the ideas that make my life miserable
And throw me into the very jaws of destruction-tiger.
        O Forgiver of all my shortcomings,
  Forgive me.
A new hope is being born in my heart.
    I shall cry from today on
To grow into Perfection’s beauty-delight.
Sri Chinmoy, Transcendence-Perfection, Agni Press, New York, 1975
