Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 67

6601

Only the peace-thirsty souls
Eventually become
God’s new smiling morning-dawns.

6602

The seeker who has surrendered
His all
To the Will of His Beloved Supreme
Can never be under the power
Of earthly death.

6603

If you can soar
Beyond your mind-limits,
Then you are bound to see
A never-ending beginning.

6604

How can you make fruitful progress
In your aspiration-life
If you allow your mind’s doubt
To blow out your aspiration-flames
Every day?

6605

Wisdom-born willingness
Has the capacity
And is the capacity
To satisfy God always
In His own Way.

6606

You are the most perfect instrument
Of God
Precisely because
Your heart has grown into
A galaxy of gratitude-stars.

6607

God’s estimated time of arrival
At a seeker’s heart-door
Is the Eternal Now.

6608

Where else can you find peace
If not in your cheerful obedience
To God’s all-seeing Will?

6609

There shall come a time
When you will be filled
With self-disgust,
For you have been deceiving
The Real in you,
Your soul.

6610

God has gone out of His way
To help you.
Yet every day you enjoy
Dragging your deplorable past
Behind you.

6611

Just take a serious look
At your aspiration-life.
Behold,
Powerful doubt-waves
Are drowning you.

6612

Invoke the presence
Of your illumination-soul
To avert the collision
Between
Your doubting mind
And your aspiring heart.

6613

You want to conquer
Your disappointment-life.
Then bring to the fore
Your gratitude-heart.

6614

If you are selfless
To the last breath,
Then God will definitely open for you
The Door of His Infinity’s
Silence-Light.

6615

If you are a true God-lover,
Then when do you have
The time to rest?
And if you need rest,
Where else must you rest
If not in the Heart
Of your Beloved Supreme?

6616

To feel the throb of your heart
In all hearts
During your meditation,
Every day you must destroy
Your uncomely thoughts.

6617

My Lord Supreme
Does not allow me to sing
Wherever I want to.
He only allows me to sing
In the silence of my soul-room.

6618

In the small hours of the morning
Every day
My Lord Supreme comes to inspect
My heart’s burning aspiration.

6619

I want to possess God:
This is my old discovery.
I want God to possess me:
This is my new invention.

6620

When I see God,
The first thing I will do
Is place Him on the throne
Of my silence-heart.

6621

Each divine thought
Comes into existence
From the boundless ocean
Of love divine.

6622

Is there any human being
Who has not lived
In the wasteland of wrong beliefs,
Even for a few fleeting days?

6623

Each good thought
Is a piece of Heaven
That a God-lover carries
Wherever he goes.

6624

Your parrot-prayers
Will never be able to lead you
To God’s Garden
Of celestial blossoms.

6625

It is good
To run a hopeful race.
But it is by far the best
To run a soulful race.

6626

How can you succeed?
Can you not see
That your mind is lost
In yesterday’s failures
And that you are losing your heart
In tomorrow’s doubts?

6627

With your second-rate aspiration
You can do only one thing:
You can disappoint God
Far beyond your imagination.

6628

You will always have
A better view of God
From the soulfulness-window
Of your heart-room.

6629

I always take very special care
Of my aspiration-compass,
For it always points me
Towards the Heart
Of my Beloved Supreme.

6630

My Lord Supreme,
I know You have no time
To enter into my reality-life,
But do enter into my dream-life
Every night.

6631

If you are fluent
In the heart-language,
God’s transcendental Smile
Will be your towering achievement.

6632

Your inner life is crumbling.
You will have to start
All over again.
Rest assured, this is not
An uncommon experience
In human life.

6633

O greedy information-seeker,
God is not going to visit you
With His Heart’s Illumination-Sun.

6634

Now that he has joined
The aspiration-heart-committee,
He has developed the capacity to believe
That God will soon arrive.

6635

On his maiden meditation-voyage,
Heaven garlanded him
With its celestial melodies.

6636

Never be late
For your God-appointment!
Develop invincible determination,
And every day nurture
Your Olympian dream
Of satisfying God
In His own Way.

6637

My Lord Supreme,
I need only one Boon from You:
Your Heart’s sunlit Smile.

6638

If you know how to run
Up the escalator of progress-light,
You will be invited to dance
To the music of the blue stars.

6639

His life’s sincerity-paved
Surrender-street
Invites all his seeker-friends.

6640

Only your heart’s
Gratitude-flower
Will produce satisfaction-fragrance
For God.

6641

The eruption of doubt-volcano
Has made your life
Fearful plus pitiful.

6642

After I finished
My inner race,
God granted me
His Symphony of Smiles.

6643

Do you know why
God is so pleased with you?
Because you have revealed
The tireless strides
Of an aspiration-runner.

6644

There is no distance
Too great
For a oneness-God-lover
To cover.

6645

Daily exercise
Your inner, soulful love-life
To become
God’s champion-instrument.

6646

Each seeker-face
Is undoubtedly
Another beautiful and meaningful
Photograph of God.

6647

You are a divine waiter
In God’s Oneness-Home-Restaurant.
Therefore
In you I see
Roaring lion-waves of joy.

6648

Simplicity-knocks
Will definitely be able
To open the fulfilment-door.

6649

At long last
He has terminated
His fruitless self-indulgence-career.

6650

Two close friends
Of ingratitude:
A doubtful life
And a fearful heart.

6651

Every day
His heart of faith
Expects the arrival
Of God’s Promise-Boat.

6652

Willingness-eye
Sees only one thing:
God’s Dream-Life
In His Reality-World.

6653

You must slow down
Your temptation-speed,
And tomorrow
You must totally stop it
Once and for all!

6654

He has failed so many times
In so many things
That his has now become
An aching life of despair.

6655

If you are doing anything
For God,
Then use your powerful life-arms
And your soulful heart-fingers.

6656

If you are not on time
For God’s appointed Hour,
Sadness
Shall be your permanent companion.

6657

Each ordinary life
Is a tiny thought-drop.
Each divine life
Is a mighty will-ocean.

6658

A pleasure-vital
Either consciously or unconsciously
Leads man to regret-world.

6659

Your ego-life
Will without fail
Be overcast
With Eternity’s frustration-clouds.

6660

God’s Victory-Clarion
Is for Eternity’s
Self-giving seeker-runner.

6661

He came into the world
Not to convince the world.
He came into the world
To inspire and love the world.
It is the task of the world
To see if his love and inspiration
Are genuine.

6662

God’s Glory-Lottery
Is always won
By the seeker’s aspiration-flames.

6663

O evening peace,
In you I see
The beauty and purity
Of the silence-night.

6664

Smile,
Because that is what God
Asks you to do.
The more you smile,
The sooner God’s Vision-Sky
Will be all yours.

6665

Nobody is worthy
Of God’s Compassion,
Still less
Of His Forgiveness.

6666

Stay at your heart-home
To respond to God’s Call.
If you are not there
To respond when He calls you,
Who knows if He will grant you
Another chance?

6667

Hold fast
To your surrender-heart,
Obedience-life
And perfection-cry.

6668

Man’s anxiety-filled world
Has destroyed his heart’s
Earth-feeding peace.

6669

If you daily walk
Through frustration-field,
You will suffer from
Perennial doubt-confusion.

6670

The noise of the desire-life
Will deafen a true God-lover,
Without fail.

6671

Do not criticise God!
He is doing everything He can
To perfect your nature
And make you really happy.

6672

Only after you have run
A hard race
Is God going to shower
His Satisfaction-Joy on you.

6673

An aspiration-country
Has no boundaries.
It always embodies
The message of the Beyond.

6674

There was a time
When I needed many things.
But now I need only one thing:
The sanctuary
Of my heart’s silence-truth.

6675

Every day when I pray
I feel the Presence
Of my Beloved Supreme
Inside the sweet Breath
Of His Divinity-Dawn.

6676

Only because of aspiration-rain
Love-seeds and sacrifice-seeds
Can sprout.

6677

There is no place on earth
As beautiful and as powerful
As the faith-filled heart-home.

6678

Pray and meditate soulfully
Plus regularly.
You will automatically get
The bumper crop
Of inner capacity.

6679

I do not need
Quite a few things
In my life.
But what I need least
Is the Bermuda Triangle
Of fear, doubt and suspicion.

6680

Alas, all your inner capacities
You have cremated
Inside the lethargy
Of your body-consciousness.

6681

Your heart’s long-burning
Patience-light
Will, without fail, deliver you
From the world’s ignorance-night.

6682

Why do you pay so much attention
To your mind-made depression?
Can you not pay attention
To your heart-created aspiration?

6683

Your self-admiration-life
Is the binding ugliness
Of nothingness.

6684

My Lord Supreme,
Do forgive me for the last time.
I shall never, never again enjoy
The long winter of distrust.

6685

You are a slave
To your doubt,
Yet you have an amazing appetite
For hope.

6686

If your mind is heavily populated
With thoughts,
God will not invite you
To participate
In His Perfection-Satisfaction-Feast.

6687

A self-admiration-life
Will never be able to enjoy
God’s Fulfilment-Feast.

6688

The darkness of the human mind
Has reached an unprecedented scale
In this twentieth century.

6689

You are forced to enter
The dark forest of sorrow
Because you deliberately refused
To become a God-tuned heart.

6690

Inside my throbbing heart
I see my Eternity’s Pilot Supreme
Singing and dancing
His Eternity’s Song and Dance.

6691

A seeker knows
That winning
Is as disheartening and disappointing
As losing,
If he does not cheerfully offer
The results
To his Inner Pilot.

6692

The rivers of your desire-mind
Have already inundated
The vast territory of your heart.

6693

His darkness-mind
He has cleverly buried
In humanity’s oblivion-cave.

6694

Your smiles dance
In all aspiring hearts.
Therefore
God will send you
A special silence-plane
To fly to His blue Heaven-Home.

6695

He who has no enthusiasm
Will never be able
To embrace God’s Vision-Beauty.

6696

You want to be well-educated
By your mind-teacher.
Yet you also want your aspiration-fire
Not to be reduced to ashes.
Indeed, an impossible task!

6697

It is your heart’s
Sleepless aspiration
That can build a bridge between
Your life’s earth-bound time
And
Your soul’s Heaven-free Eternity.

6698

You claim to be a God-lover,
Yet every day you find fault
With your God-Friend.
I simply do not know
How you can enjoy
This impossible challenge.

6699

How can you ever discover
A well-pleased God,
When your entire life has not become
A silence-filled mind?

6700

My Lord Supreme,
All along I have worshipped You
With words.
Now I shall worship You
With the flower-heart
Of my silence-breath.

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