“My God-gratitude-heart
Makes everything sweet
In my life.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Our heart’s gratitude
Produces a sleepless energy
Which helps us bring about success
In each and every aspect of our life.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“To roar
With a lion-strength,
We must soar
In our God-gratitude-heart-sky.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“What enables us to see God?
Definitely not our capacity-strength,
But our heart’s gratitude-length.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“A moment of gratitude offered to God is an hour of most intense meditation on God.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Our heart’s gratitude
Is the measure
Of our spiritual progress.”
– Sri Chinmoy
These beautiful poems and aphorisms celebrate the unparalleled beauty, sweetness, power and strength of gratitude. So significant and essential is this quality, the burning question for us all must surely be: How can we access and bring forth gratitude from within? Sri Chinmoy’s answer to this question is disarmingly simple:
“It is through the constant inner cry. We cry outwardly when we desperately need name, fame, outer capacity, prosperity and so forth. But when we cry inwardly, we have to feel that we are crying only to please and fulfil God in His own Way. The outer cry is for our own fulfilment, in our own way. The inner cry is for God-fulfilment in God’s own Way. If there is a constant inner cry, that means we are trying to please God, satisfy God and fulfil God in God’s own Way. If we can cry inwardly, in silence, then our gratitude increases, because inside the inner cry is the abode of gratitude, and inside the abode of gratitude is God.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Nothing else is perfect
And
Nothing else can ever be perfect
Except the soulful cry
Of our fruitful gratitude-heart.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Gratitude
Is by far the best
Attitude.”
– Sri Chinmoy