9853. IF YOU COMPETE WITH YOURSELF

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If you compete with yourself,

God will give you the capacity

To transcend yourself.

If you compete with others,

Yours will be a blundering mind

And a suffering heart.

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From:Sri Chinmoy,Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 99, Agni Press, New York, 1983
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