Appendix: these quotes, from other writings of Sri Chinmoy, were included in the first editions.

> Pray with fear. God sheds bitter tears.

> Pray with love. God smiles with the Beauty of the Golden Dawn.

> Pray with all that you have. God wings towards you to clasp you.

> Pray with all that you are. God becomes your Liberation.

> Life and death. These are the two Blessings that I have received from God.

> Life inspires me to realise the highest Truth.

> Death wants me to wake up and hurry up.

> I have realised my error. I shall no longer stay with ignorance.

> Ignorance has understood its folly. It will no longer stay with me.

> I say to ignorance: “You have tortured me.”

> Ignorance says to me: “You have fooled me.”

> Love the world. You will be suspected.

> Love God. You will be emancipated.

> Love the world with the feeling that the world is God. You will revive the truth.

> Love God with the feeling that God is the world. You will immortalise the truth.

> I look upward. I earn time.

> I look forward. I utilise time.

> I look inward. I save time.

> I look backward. I waste time.

> I stayed with death. Death offered me its life: Ignorance. Death told me that I could never see the Face of God.

> I stayed with God. He gave me His Life: Immortality. God told me that I shall not only see Him, but eventually I shall have to become God.

> YES speaks through my heart: “Since there is only God, I am sure to see Him one day. Although I see Him not, I feel Him all-where.”

> The mind sleeps while the heart aspires. The Heart cries for God, while the mind doubts God and shouts at Him.

> God gave me the happiest news that He loves me even if I don’t care to love Him.

> I gave God the greatest news that I think of Him although ignorance constantly thinks of me.

> When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.

> When I desire, impossibility frowns at me. When I aspire, possibility beckons me. When I will, I smash the pride of impossibility and transform possibility into inevitability.

> Knowledge says that this is right and that is wrong.

> Wisdom does the right and shuns the wrong.

> Spirituality embodies the journey of knowledge and the goal of wisdom.

> To help humanity is to see Unity.

> To serve humanity is to earn Divinity.

> To possess humanity is to welcome Multiplicity.

> Never underestimate your soul’s potentiality.

> Never overestimate your body’s capacity.

> Man’s cry is the ascending soul.

> God’s Smile is the descending Goal.

> Good promises keep ever.

> Bad promises skip over.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Flame-Waves, part 6, Agni Press, 1976
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