“God’s greatest treasure is man’s smile.”
– Sri Chinmoy
“Smile, always smile!
You will be able to disarm
Even your worst foe.”
– Sri Chinmoy
A smile is pure magic. How is it that a rearrangement of our facial muscles can have such an instant and miraculous effect on our consciousness and on the world around us? As the contours on both sides of our mouth arch upwards, so our mood, our energy, our prospects, our outlook on life rises in parallel.
Our smile is the unfailing indicator of our happiness, and projector of our happiness to the world. A frown or furrowed brow is the opposite.
A smile is contagious, spreading from one heart to another faster than thought itself. When we are walking along the street and see someone coming towards us wearing a huge smile, immediately we smile in return, even though this person may be a complete stranger. Smiles are a secret code whereby our hearts communicate with each other despite our minds’ barriers and indifference, a network of deeper knowing and understanding that is independent of our minds’ awareness or control, an underground society of joy.
The smile is a language of the heart, conveying and sharing so many of our heart’s qualities – joy, light, optimism, conviction, enthusiasm, courage, power – instantly and wordlessly.
A smile radiates: it lightens us in every way. Smiles remove heaviness, hesitation, gloom and doom from our minds, hearts and lives. They lift us from hell to heaven in an instant. Doubt, fear, anxiety, anger, frustration and depression all shrivel and die in the presence of a smile.
Like sunlight, air and water, a smile belongs to everybody. No matter if it is worn on my face or your face, a smile brings Heaven to earth for all.