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1784. The next best thing
If you cannot Pray and meditate soulfully Every day, Then do the next best thing: Try to feel that your spiritual death Is fast approaching.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 18
8241. If The Mind Ever Gets Peace
If the human mind neglects To meditate every day, Then if ever it gets peace, This peace will be without fail Both fleeting and fragile.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 83
Each Morning Meditation
My clever mind thinks That each morning prayer Can be most profitable.

My aspiring heart knows That each morning meditation Can be most lovable.

From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 41
1545. My clever prayer
When I pray, I cleverly ask God To run errands for me.

When I meditate, God wisely asks me To run errands for Him.

From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 16
26.
My Supreme Lord,

Yesterday I placed at Your FeetMy prayer-sound gift.

Today I am placing at Your FeetMy meditation-silence gift.

From the book A seeker is a singer
My clever prayer
When I pray, I cleverly ask God To run errands for me.

When I meditate, God wisely asks me To run errands for Him.

From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 9, September 1980
13.
When I meditate, I speak to humanity on behalf of divinity....
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 2, February 1980
2.
Consuls to Puerto Rico from Germany, Japan, Peru, Venezuela, Chile and Costa Rica at his Centre for meditation...
From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 2, 27 February 1975
Question: Is there any way that we can meditate specifically to help the United Nations?
the soul comes to the fore, you will have abiding satisfaction from life; that is why you pray and meditate … So when you meditate here at the United Nations, please feel that inside the body of the United Nations … If you can feel the presence of the soul of the United Nations, then your meditation will be most helpful

There are many, many who are not present here today to meditate with us. … If you can cultivate these sublime ideas or ideals during your meditation, you will most effectively...

From the book Flame-Waves, part 4
Restlessness
Question: I have been trying to meditate for some months, but I have had two problems. … The physical mind does not want to meditate to overcome restlessness. … The calmness you receive in meditation is like poison to the restless vital. … from your meditation. … Try to feel that your meditation is like a child right now....
From the book Problems! Problems! Are they really problems? part 2
Question: How can one overcome a feeling of hell and doubt when one meditates?
First of all, we must have a fondness for meditation, a liking for meditation. … But nobody can impose meditation on us. We have to accept it on our own. … Because they do not like or love meditation.

When we meditate, we must not expect anything from our meditation. … God is meditating in and through us. The very fact that we want to meditate should please us....

From the book Aspiration and God's Hour
Meditation: Individual and collective

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals.

Meditation: individual and collective.

Meditation: individual and collective. It is easy to meditate individually. … to meditate consciously. … meditate without being disturbed in the least....

From the book Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India's Soul.
Question: What is the best way for me to break my ties with ignorance?
When you pray, meditate and aspire, sometimes you do it consciously and sometimes you do it unconsciously … When you pray and meditate you have to do it consciously....
From the book Transcendence of the past
Schonfeld: Does physical exercise go with the meditation?
I teach my students concentration, meditation and contemplation. … with Sri Chinmoy, an Indian Guru who has a large and growing following believing in the concept of meditation...
From the book Obedience: a supreme virtue
Question: When you close your eyes completely and hum that way, does that create a kind of hypnotism in your followers?
Whether I keep my eyes open or closed, they feel the same divine consciousness when I meditate. … itself enters into their aspiring heart and creates a divine vibration which inspires them to pray and meditate...
From the book Prayer-world, mantra-world and japa-world
715. I shall do it for you
Daughter,

You do not have to think;I shall do the thinking for you.

You do not have to pray;I shall do the praying for you.

You do not have to meditate;I shall do the meditating for you.

You do not have to surrender;I shall do the surrendering for you.

I shall do everything for you.Just give Me a smile,

A soulful smile every day.

From the book Europe-Blossoms
Question: Why do you stress regularity in the spiritual life?
Meditation is our spiritual food. … In the spiritual life one has to meditate regularly every day, and if he belongs to a spiritual centre...
From the book Problems! Problems! Are they really problems? part 1
Editor's preface to the first edition
During a meditation at the United Nations on 4 April 1975, Sri Chinmoy invited members of the United … Nations Meditation Group to give him spiritual words (poem 1 to 22)....
From the book Beauty-Drops
1143. What shall I learn ultimately?
My Lord Supreme, What shall I learn ultimately From my prayers? “My child, What you will ultimately learn From your prayers is this: You will someday possess Me, My universal and transcendental Existence-Reality.”

My Lord Supreme, What shall I learn ultimately From my meditations? “My child, What you will ultimately learn From your meditations is this: You are My Eternity’s own, My Infinity’s own And my Immortality’s own, Very own.”

From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 12
Editor's note to cover photo
Sri Chinmoy meditates with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, on 13 … Moved by the meditation, which took place in the private office of the Secretary-General, Mr Pérez de...
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 61
Editor's note to cover photo
Blum, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, at a programme sponsored by the Meditation Group in … Ambassador Blum also joined Sri Chinmoy Meditation at the United Nations on two other occasions: the...
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 58
Question: Can one attain God-realisation by meditating on the sun?
Sri Chinmoy: One can realise God by meditating on the sun. … In India seekers get up at the Hour of God, 3:00 in the morning, and start to meditate on the rising...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-3, No. 9, 27 September 1976
796. How to make God smile
When I pray, The Power of God smiles.

When I meditate, The Light of God smiles.

When I love and serve, God Himself smiles.

From the book The Wings of Light, part 16
23.
I pray to God

To see His golden Feet.I meditate on God

To be His choice instrument....

From the book My Race-Prayers, part 3
307. I have known it all along
High imagination is nature's equal.

I have known it all along.

Devoted service is meditation's equal.

I have known it all along.

From the book Transcendence-Perfection
284
When I do not aspire,

When I do not prayAnd when I do not meditate,

My mind becomes the heavy weightOf futile frustration.

From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 1
2256
Meditate on God’s Compassion-Eye While you are driving Through the streets of life. Lo, God will not allow Fear, doubt and anxiety To accompany you.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 3
2877
Meditation Is my heart-expansion. My heart-expansion Is my God-satisfaction. My God-satisfaction Is my life-perfection. My life-perfection Is the world-progression.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 3
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When I brought meditation Back into my life, God did not wait, even for A fleeting second, To come and embrace me With His greatest Satisfaction.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 5
1638
When we do not pray and meditate, We see the two worst possible rivals In our own life-family: Our frustration-mind And Our depression-vital.
From the book Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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