8509. I Once Promised Myself

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I once promised myself

That I would not try to escape

Any appropriate punishment

If I misbehaved in my inner life.

Yet my promise remains unfulfilled.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 86, Agni Press, 1983
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