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  To Change the World   To change the world around you. Give the World What you have And Serve the world With what you are.     By: Sri Chinmoy Photo by Pavitrata Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries  

The Hour Came The hour came. I was not ready. God descended, Smiled And Departed. The hour came again. I was not ready. God ascended, Pushed And Barked. The hour came not. I was ready. God slept. I cried. Ignorance sang. Satan danced. By: Sri Chinmoy From: Here is the Place and

  Prayer Great God, I ask for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye. And next in value, which thy kindness lends, That I may greatly disappoint my friends, Howe’er they think or hope [...]

  Because I could not stop for Death by: Emily Dickinson   Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labour, and my leisure too, For his civility. We passed [...]

  Poem – Hope   Hope, my pilot-star, hope I have seen your face. I have felt your heart. Therefore In ignorance-night I shall no more grope. Hope, my pilot-star, hope You are humanity’s peerless rope For human souls to climb God’s transcendental height.      By: Sri Chinmoy From: Excerpt from Eternity’s Breath by [...]

Bodhgaya where the Lord Buddha attained enlightenment. Gaya is located at a distance of 105 km from Patna in the state of Bihar. Buddha Gaya is located 7 miles south of Gaya and is one of the well visited Buddhist pilgrimage centers of the Indian subcontinent. "The Bodhi tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment [...]

    faint sunlight faint sunlight      injecting the veins           of a falling leaf     By: Gabriel Rosenstock – from Haiku: The Art of Disappearing, by Gabriel Rosenstock (unpublished manuscript) Photo by Richard Poems of Gabriel Rosenstock at Poetseers.org Poems of Gabriel Rosenstock at Poetry Chaikhana  

Modern life with all its distractions and features seems particularly unsuited to silence. Even if we have actual outer silence our mind is rarely silent. If we analyse our thoughts there seem to be a never ending stream of worries, anxieties, and regrets. In meditation we try to do a very difficult thing – silence [...]

  Time Is everywhere Precious.   Do not waste time Thinking of a better future   The futures is here – In the heart of Here and Now.   Poems By: Sri Chinmoy Photo by Kamalika Sri Chinmoy Centre Galleries   Poems about Time at Poetseers "Unaspiring human beings do not enlist the help of [...]

Four monks decided to meditate silently without speaking for two weeks. By nightfall on the first day, the candle began to flicker and then went out. The first monk said, "Oh, no! The candle is out." The second monk said, "Aren’t we not suppose to talk?" The third monk said, "Why must you two break [...]