Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 119

11801

Greet the morning
With your heart’s aspiration-cry.
Greet the evening
With your life’s gratitude-smile.
At night God will grant you
His Eternity’s Love and His Infinity’s Peace.

11802

The human mind and dissatisfaction
Are inseparable friends,
And God alone knows
If there is any chance left for them
To be totally transformed.

11803

Feed your heart-hunger
With God’s Compassion-Height
And God’s Forgiveness-Length.

11804

The jungle-mind does not know
And will never know
How to discover
Man’s life-obedience-smile.

11805

If you take the clever intentions
Of your mind
Seriously,
Then your heart’s cheerfulness-splendour
Will be chased
By your darkest mind-clouds.

11806

A searching mind is undoubtedly
The best friend
Of the heart’s oneness-fulness.

11807

The unaspiring mind
Always wants to be the president
Of life’s confusion-committee.

11808

Keep your soul’s compassion-banner
Flying high
So that God’s Smiles
Will sing and dance
In your God-oneness-heart.

11809

My heart wants to take rest
Not inside God’s Heart-Garden
But outside at God’s Feet.

11810

Who wants to be my partner
In my mind’s endless miseries?
Again, who wants to be my partner
In my heart’s constant self-giving?

11811

My hope-boat carries me far.
My promise-boat carries me farther.
My gratitude-boat carries me
Farther than the farthest,
Plus faster than the fastest.

11812

How can you receive God’s Blessings
If your heart does not first welcome
His absolute Will?

11813

When your mind is like
A big confusion-circus,
Your soul loses its hope-sky
And promise-sun for you.

11814

In a seeker’s life
Each unaspiring thought
Is a magnet
For frustration-failure-heart.

11815

If doubt is the mastermind
Of a disastrous life,
Then faith is the choice prince
Of God’s perfection-dreaming Kingdom.

11816

When I make friends
With my doubtful mind,
I see only one thing:
That my self-confidence
Is extremely slippery.

11817

My faith in God gives me the capacity
To have access to possibility.
God’s Faith in me gives me the capacity
To challenge the pride of impossibility.

11818

You want to know
What my aspiration does for me
In my day-to-day life.
It does two significant things:
It breaks all my expectation-chains,
And it helps me unconditionally
To be closer to God
Even when my consciousness
Is not at the top
Of my spirituality-mountain.

11819

When I offer my Lord
My heart’s aspiration-flames,
He blesses me with His descending
And embracing Satisfaction-Sun.

11820

Man tells God,
“My Lord,
I shall show You
A beautiful dream-land.”
God tells man,
“My child,
I shall give you
My fruitful Reality-Shore.”

11821

If your love of God is genuine,
At no time can you have
A head-on collision
With stark disappointment.

11822

If you enjoy the quagmire
Of self-doubt,
Then you will be unconsciously
Carrying with you
Today’s tears and tomorrow’s anguish-fears.

11823

If there is no soul’s sunshine,
How can the heart’s aspiration-plant
Ever grow and thrive?

11824

Every morning I offer
To my Lord Supreme
My heart’s secret hopes,
And every day my Lord grants me
His Heart’s sacred Promises.

11825

Every day I send my mind
To study at faith-school
So that it can become an excellent student
Of the world’s oneness-philosophy.

11826

Every day in vain
His soul and his heart try
To enter into his doubting mind’s
Unwillingness-prison.

11827

A heart of gratitude
And a mind of purity
Always stay together,
Move together
And work together.

11828

Unless you renew your love of God
Every day,
You are destined to mourn the loss
Of your faith-power.

11829

Your success-stories
May not reach God’s Ear,
But your progress-stories
Will reach both God’s Ear
And God’s Heart.

11830

Drive bravely and powerfully
Through your mind’s doubt-storms
On the strength of your previous
Sweet God-fondness and
God-oneness-moments.

11831

No clarity of the mind,
No perfection of life.
No perfection of life,
No satisfaction of God
The universal man.

11832

If you do not prosecute
Your suspicion-mind,
You will not be able to make friends
With your aspiration-heart.

11833

A heart of purity
Can easily make friends
With the rising tide
Of love, devotion and surrender.

11834

Our heart can easily possess
Permanent security
By cultivating sleepless faith
In God.

11835

A confidence-plant grows
Fast, faster, fastest
Into a joy-giving flowering tree.

11836

Do not forget to enter
Your heart-to-heart talk with God
Into your life’s soulful diary.

11837

God-Diner remains open
365 days a year
And blessingfully invites
God-hungry souls
To dine free of charge.

11838

Do not allow your aspiring heart
To be frightened
When it sees the mind
Leaving doubt-traces everywhere.

11839

Your heart’s glowing aspiration
Will definitely be able to avoid
All anxiety-disasters.

11840

I can clearly see
And I can unmistakably feel
That my Lord Supreme is eager
To increase the strength of my purity-breath
Every day.

11841

God does not want us to store
Any anxieties,
Even past anxieties,
In our overcrowded mind-rooms.

11842

The human mind
Knows how to conceal.
The divine heart
Knows how to reveal.
The Supreme Lord
Knows how to fulfil.

11843

An insecurity-heart
Is always the warning sign
Of a serious inner disease.

11844

God’s Compassion-Eye feels miserable
When it sees even one neglected soul
In His Oneness-World-Home.

11845

If you enjoy
Your partnership with self-doubt,
Then how can you expect God
To find time for you?

11846

If you allow inferiority
To govern you,
Then you take yourself away
From God’s Oneness-Heart-Land.

11847

Self-indulgence in the inner world
Always leads to
A dangerous and destructive
Frustration-night.

11848

My heart and God’s Heart
Are separated
By my self-doubt-wall,
And by nothing else.

11849

Patience within, power without!
Patience is a self-perfecting message;
Power is a God-fulfilling message.

11850

If you do not purify your thoughts,
Then how can you dare
To try to make God smile?

11851

One surrender-step
Is a perfect accomplishment
In man’s perfection-longing life.

11852

To enjoy the beauty
Of a silence-heart
Is to enjoy the bliss
Of a progress-life.

11853

If you are a genuine God-seeker,
Then you must never be seen
Moving around
At the foot of hesitation-hill.

11854

The God-realisation-journey
Starts with the aspiration-cry
And dedication-smile
Of the God-dreaming seeker.

11855

An impurity-mind
And an ingratitude-heart
Are extremely powerful realities
Which separate man from God.

11856

God the Justice
May not always find time for me,
But God the Compassion
Has always plenty of time for me
And for my satisfaction.

11857

Every day try to remember
Only one thing:
That you have to clear
Your mind’s jungle-thoughts.

11858

The outer school-education
Is definitely important.
The inner school-dedication
Is ultimately essential.

11859

It is good
To have confidence-light,
But if you overdraw
Your confidence-bank account,
Then it will be the beginning
Of your lamentable future.

11860

He who knows
The art of self-effacement
Will also discover
A way to God-fulfilment.

11861

The moment you break
All your human bonds,
God will give you
Not only a divine heart
But also His own Heart.

11862

Until I received
An invitation from God,
I participated
In the world-excitement-game —
Alas, far beyond my own imagination!

11863

To dream
Of God’s full manifestation on earth
Is the blossoming
Of the heart’s wisdom-sun.

11864

If your heart
Is a sleepless joy-singer,
Then it must also be
A thoughtless God-bringer.

11865

If yours is an open-hearted invitation
For God to step into your heart-room,
Then you will get a standing ovation
From the cosmic gods.

11866

My mind forgets
That God loves my mind.
My heart forgets
That both God and my heart
Equally need each other.

11867

My gratitude-breath
Is my invisible and invaluable
Helper-friend.

11868

Nobody can and nobody wants to
Practise what I preach.
But my Compassion-flooded
Lord Supreme
Smilingly practises
What I ceaselessly preach.

11869

Be sincere and be brave!
You know you do not know how
To solve the world’s problems.

11870

First ask God’s Permission
To enter into His Heart-Room.
Then He Himself will give you the capacity
To climb up His Divinity’s ascending
And expanding Tree.

11871

Make your promise to God
As soulfully as possible,
For God has assured you
That He will grant you fulfilment
As much as possible.

11872

Every day
Make your soulful obedience
Worthy of God’s supreme Command.

11873

Do not misuse God’s Compassion-Light
If you want God’s Perfection-Eye
And His Satisfaction-Heart
To act in and through you.

11874

God’s Forgiveness is not hard to find.
God’s Compassion is not hard to find.
God’s indifference and withdrawal
Are always hard to find.

11875

Nobody can be relaxed,
Nobody can be comfortable,
Nobody can be happy
Inside his mind’s ego-prison.

11876

How can you ever please God
If you do not take
His Compassion-Medicine
To cure your life-threatening
Spiritual ailments?

11877

I know what is done for me
By God the Compassion.
His Compassion is beautiful and powerful.
I know what is done through me
By God the Justice.
His Justice is absolutely perfect.

11878

Every day without fail
You must welcome
The purity-dawn for your mind
And the sincerity-day for your heart.

11879

My love of God
Is not a loan from God
But a gift from God.

11880

God’s Forgiveness inspired
My yesterday’s aspiration.
God’s Compassion is inspiring
My today’s perfection.

11881

Are you deaf?
Are you blind?
Can you not hear,
Can you not see
That God is begging you
To come out of your self-chosen
Ignorance-cave?

11882

If your life is all self-importance,
Then God has infinitely more
Important things to do
Than be with you.

11883

Your heart’s aspiration-tears
Will definitely please God,
And you will one day climb up
The Himalayan realisation-mountain.

11884

If your heart knows the truth,
Then help your heart to compel your mind
To speak the truth.

11885

After you have won
God’s Compassion-Light,
You will eventually win
God’s Fulfilment-Smile.

11886

What you have
Is a superficial heart.
How, then, do you expect God
To dance His Satisfaction-Dance
For you?

11887

When your mind is plagued
By dark doubts,
You are bound to be imprisoned
By all limitations — inner and outer.

11888

It is the mind’s inspiration-bud
That before long grows into
The heart’s aspiration-flower
And eventually becomes
The life’s realisation-fruit.

11889

Tell your heart that God
Loves your heart sleeplessly.
Tell your mind that God
Is coming to investigate your mind carefully.

11890

Ignore the last attack of impurity
Exactly the way you ignored
The first attack of insecurity:
Bravely and sleeplessly.

11891

Every day my Lord gives me
The capacity to free myself
From frustration-night.
But, alas,
My fondness for temptation-snake
Does not allow me to please my God.

11892

Only take one brave step
To please God, your Inner Pilot.
Do you know what that brave step will be?
Planting a sincerity-plant in your heart.

11893

Do not save your gratitude-heart
For God-Satisfaction-Day.
Who knows, that sacred day
May never arrive in your life.

11894

O world’s gossip-tongue,
No, not even God’s Compassion-Sky
Can forgive your ceaseless stupidity-flow.

11895

My Lord Supreme,
I need Your inner Supervision
To perfect my life.
My Lord Supreme,
I need Your outer Supervision
To fulfil Your outer Command.

11896

You must never appreciate
The stupidity-mind.
You must every day garland
The wisdom-surcharged soul.

11897

Be careful!
I assure you that one day
Time will throw you out
Of your superiority-palace.
Therefore, become and remain
A satisfied humility-plant.

11898

Do not overlook the daily faults
Of your unaspiring mind.
Do not underestimate
Your heart’s aspiration-cry
For your life’s perfection-smile.

11899

Every morning without fail
I go to God the Supreme Doctor
For faith and dedication-injections.

11900

My Lord Supreme,
May each day become
My heart’s aspiration-fulfilment-day.

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