Sri Chinmoy spoke on how we can constantly feel newness in our spiritual lives:
“There are inner ways to feel newness, to have newness and to walk with newness. Again, on the outer plane there are also ways to increase newness, to feel the beauty of newness and to smell the fragrance of newness.
“Every morning, as soon as you look at your eyes or your head or any part of your body, please try to see yourself as a flower, the flower that you love most. There are so many flowers on earth, and each individual, I am sure, has a special flower to appreciate. Each person will enjoy the beauty and fragrance of a particular flower. You know which flower you like best. Every morning, consciously make yourself feel and see that you are that very flower, the flower that you love most. As you know, a flower means beauty, purity and divinity. If you have beauty, if you have purity and if you have divinity, then you do not need anything else. The divine beauty, the divine purity and the divine divinity: these things are eternally new. So as soon as you think of yourself, please feel that you are the most beautiful flower, the flower that you cherish most.
“Physically one can be old, but not spiritually. Spiritually nobody can be old. God Himself is not old. He has and He is spirituality itself, and at the same time He is the eternal Child in Eternity’s Garden. So if our Creator is always young, how can we be otherwise? How can we be old? Please think of your spiritual life as something you have just begun. Because you have just begun, everything is sweet and beautiful, everything is welcoming you.”
– Sri Chinmoy