The selected poems from Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, parts 1-50 by Sri Chinmoy.   http://www.srichinmoylibrary.com/books/s

I do not know
If any great soul
Does not suffer
From oppressive
And weighty problems.

00,416.
The light in the heart of man
Can easily guide
The eyes of man.

00,816.
It takes enormous courage
To have implicit faith
In God’s outer operations.

1,088.
To my extreme happiness,
My Lord has come to tell me
That from now on
I must stand apart from my actions,
Divine and undivine.
He alone is the Doer;
I am a mere observer.

1,537.
I know the sacred meaning
Of what God says to me.
God knows the secret significance
Of what I do not say to Him.

1,952.
There was a time
When I wanted to know
What I could do for humanity.
But now I want only to know
Who I truly am.

2,063.
God is forced to live
Behind the curtain of our mind.

2,310.
If your mind is not caught
By pleasure and pain,
Then God Himself will come down
And unchain your life.

2,313.
God tells me to be wise
And to welcome smilingly
Whatever befalls me.

2,307.
Out of His infinite Compassion,
My Lord Supreme has allowed me
To touch His Feet.
Therefore, all my desires and earthly wishes
I have totally forgotten.

2,557
If you want to remain happy always,
Then do not tell the world
What you want,
Or even what you need.

2,634.
You think that you know
Everything about everything.
But a day shall dawn when you will realise
That you know nothing about anything.

2,928.
You can embrace the outer life
Only after you have founded yourself
In the heart of your spiritual life.

3,461.
My Lord tells me, “My child, observe!
Observe everything and everybody.
Then, when the time comes,
I shall tell you what to say
And what to do.”

3,605.
My uncomplicated days
Are giving my life
The golden opportunity
To make the fastest progress.

3,691.
Your meditative consciousness
Is nothing short of
Your God-nearing feet.

3,911.
How to achieve happiness?
Not by giving, not by talking,
But by being.

5,579.
Ignorance-night and wisdom-light
With equal happiness
Course through me.

5,718.
Alas, meaningless thoughts
And worthless ideas
Are ruling the entire world.

6,147.
Be not afraid of Heaven.
Heaven is empty of justice-hands.
Heaven is all compassion-heart.

6,219.
God does not need
A big performance from me
To transform my life.
He can and will do everything
Unconditionally.

6,656.
When our heart flies
Towards Heaven,
Time stands still.
It does not interfere.

6,807.
Our mind’s silence
Is the soundless sound
Of our soul’s tranquillity.

7,300.
I ask God what is right
And what is wrong in my life.
He tells me that nothing is wrong
In my life
As long as I love Him
And need Him.

7,928.
A happy life is the clear indication
Of a tamed mind
And disciplined thoughts.

8,069.
From the soul’s point of view,
We do not need
An outer teacher in life.
What we need
Is a private tutor.

8,201.

My world-acceptance
Is in no way detrimental
To my God-surrender-life.

8,306.

Eternity laughs and laughs
At our earthly
Monumental achievements.

8,618.

In the inner world,
Unlike the outer world,
We do not lose anyone
If we sincerely love.

8,709.
The higher you go,
The clearer it becomes
That everything is predestined.

8,980.
Wherever I go,
I see the same face of space
And the same heart of time.

9,964.
God becomes proud of me
Only when I ask Him
What I must become
And not what I should do.

10,937.
My Lord Supreme has closed
My outer life on all sides
So that my inner life can have
A free access to His Heart.

13,104.
May Infinity’s Peace
Whisper
Down the corridors
Of Time.

13,502.
The inner life is usually aware of God.
Therefore, God expects much more
From the inner life
Than the outer life.

13,680.
In our identification with the Source,
We become one with inner realities
Infinitely stronger
Than outer realities.

13,699.
If you live in your heart,
Others’ joy will secretly enter into you
And widen your heart.

13,747.
Meditation can surcharge
The entire being
With the power of silence.

13,748.
The Universal Light itself
Is the real Guru.

14,101.
You can always do
The right thing
If you meditate and meditate
And meditate.

14,102.
When you meditate,
Feel that both your eyes
Are swimming in your heart-river
With tremendous joy.

14,790.
Our prayer and meditation
Determine beforehand
What is needed.
Then they bring to us
The things that are essential.

15,103.
God whispers to me:
“My child, do anything
You want to.
My Love for you is infinite
And ever-increasing.”

15,263.
When you meditate,
You embody only good thoughts.
You will not find fault with others;
You will not speak ill of them;
You will not be a hindrance to their achievements;
You will not try to surpass them.

15,719.
Wisdom is to obey
The Message of God
At every moment.
There is no other wisdom.

16,570.
Remember your highest meditation.
Then with your determination
And eagerness,
Give life to that imagination.

17,819.
The only way
I can serve my Lord
Is through
My silence-heart.

19,138.
We must renounce
The hope of fulfilment
Before enlightenment.

19,683.
O seeker,
God wants your life
To practise spirituality
And not advertise spirituality.

19,800.
When my mind falls silent,
Everything becomes perfect
In my life.

20,758.
Whenever God hides something,  

He hides that thing very near us,
Not far, never.

20,770.
Dreams are indications
That we must go on and go on,
Unperturbed.

21,079.
I do not define God.
I just claim Him
To be mine.

21,361.
Success in spirituality
Is not bound
To only one road.

21,888.
Our inner silence
Preserves
Our outer dignity.

22,986.
The divine in us
Pays all the bills from the world
For its earth-existence.
It does not owe anything.

23,272.
Unlike life,
Death practices democracy.

23,617.
Once God hires someone,
He does not know
How to dismiss.

23,887.
Only my happiness in the inner world
And God’s Happiness in the higher world
Can be of great service
To mankind.

24,015.
There should be a balance
Between the inner life
And the outer life.
If not, life fails to succeed.

24,072.
God wants to work
In and through me.
I just have to remain relaxed.

24,155.

Realisation —
Go for it!
Leave aside everything else.

24,439.
If we want to make
Real spiritual progress,
We must not pay any attention
To the fleeting panorama of life.

24,663.
When we live in the heart,
We get the joy of pilgrimage
To worlds unknown.

24,740.
Forgiveness
Is by far
The world’s best harmoniser.

25,029.
God’s Pride knows no bounds
When we are equal
To any pressure.

25,358.
In the world of silence,
No outer law is welcome.

25,538.
The silence of God-oneness-souls
On earth
Is infinitely stronger
Than man-made nuclear weapons.

26,192.
If you are divinely happy,
Then anything you do
Becomes part and parcel
Of your meditation.

26,258.
Everybody’s life
Is being shaped
By the invisible hand
Of fate.

26,392.
Remain silent.
Your patience will do the work
Infinitely better.

27,049.
Do not waste
Your inner strength
On meaningless
Outer problems.

27,078.
In the spiritual life,
God-realisation
Is the only major quest —
Everything else is minor.

27,803.
Meditation
Is the only thing
That gives a true seeker happiness.

28,059.
When we deliver
God’s Messages in silence
To the whole world, 

We are heard far better
Than if we speak.

28,422.
Who will lead this world to sanity?
Not the human life,
But the divine Breath.

28,247.
My Beloved Lord,
Do grant me the safest passage
Through life.

28,517.
My God-gratitude
Is deeply hidden
From the eyes of mankind.

28,693.
Today’s monumental problems
Tomorrow become
Absolutely ridiculous.

29,141.
When I meditate,
The fulness of the Beyond
Enters into my life.

29,157.
To maintain
An unblemished life-record
Is almost an impossible task.

29,464.
Each obstruction on the road
Has something special to offer
In disguise.

29,563.
If you pray and meditate,
The Inner Teacher will show you
How to do things
That are far beyond
Your imagination’s flight.

29,653.
The outer success
Does not necessarily indicate
The inner progress.

29,746.
In the stillness of silence
We accomplish everything
Most significantly.

30,284.
There is a special purpose
In what we say and do,
Though we may not be
Fully aware of it.

30,343.
The divine in us
Loves to live
In the unseen and the unknown.

30,390.
Quite often
What hurts us outwardly
Is a great blessing
For our inner life.

30,616.
Be not ashamed of your past.
Be not afraid of your future.
God’s Love was, is
And forever shall remain
With you.

30,891.
The greatest secret
God has told me:
God will be fully responsible
For what I do
And for what I do not do.

31,192.
God loves me equally
Whether I am on stage
Or off stage.

31,285.
I do not have to know the future,
As long as God knows
Who I am and what I stand for.

31,518.
The inner education starts
Only after we have broken
All our attachment-chains.

31,524.
The real spiritual life
Knows
No earthly planning.

31,597.
The world looks for capacity.
God looks for sincerity.

31,791.
My progress depends
Not on what I do,
Not on what I say,
But only on my Lord’s
Unconditional Compassion-Rain.

31,847.
The spiritual life
Is not a matter of understanding.
It is a matter of self-offering
To God.

32,290.
We need meditation
More than anything else
In our Heavenward journey.

32,341.
Difficulties are nothing but jokes
In comparison to the good
That we derive.

32,347.
Everything will stop —
Misunderstanding, suffering,
Insecurity and death —
At God’s choice Hour.

32,543.
My mind pretends
To be spiritual,
Which is an absurdity.

32,722.
God loves silence-gratitude
More than He loves
Sound-gratitude.

32,976.
There is no such thing as
An unproductive meditation.

33,214.
How can I miss anything,
Since nothing has come from me?

33,245.
If I feel God’s Presence all the time
In the very depths of my heart,
I do not need anything else,
Either from the outer world
Or from the inner world.

33,261.
Earth-challenges
Heaven takes
As an amusement park.

33,351.
Meditation
Is the only duty
That a God-lover has.

33,354.
By being hard on yourself
You can accomplish
Nothing significant.

33,522.
I surround myself,
Not with thoughts,
But with God’s Will.

34,041.
The God-seeker’s profession
Shall always remain
Unparalleled.

34,242.
Of all my divine qualities,
My poise has no equal..

34,438.
At times God entrusts us
With divine freedom
For our personal use.

34,470.
If I can forgive others
For my undeserved torture,
Then I am destined to do something
Extremely great and good
For God and for mankind.

34,502.
The ocean-vast God-realisation
You can have
If your surrender
Is utterly complete.

34,505.
I must be pleased with myself,
And remain pleased with myself,
All the time.

34,696.
The inner freedom we cannot use;
It is the inner freedom
That uses us
Lovinglyandself-givingly.

35,065.
Now that I have arrived
At God’s Gate,
I am totally free
Of my fate.

35,409.
Intuition knows
No frustration.

35,755.
Do not depend on others.
You must chart your own course.

35,939.
God does not want me
To spy on
His spiritual children.

36,116.
Only the wise seekers
Feel the necessity
To have both their outer life
And inner life
In perfect condition.

36,260.
If you really want to retire,
Then retire within
Your own inner self.

36,353.
It is all up to God
To decide if the time is right
For me to cut off all earthly ties
And dedicate every second of my life
To Him.

36,723.
What happens in my life
Long ago happened
In God’s Heart.

37,218.
Love silence.
Silence has the capacity
To give you everything.

37,225.
Obstacles are not needed
To make progress,
But if they come,
We must immediately try
To surmount them.

37,300.
An empty mind
In the spiritual life
Is a supreme achievement.

38,378.
Live your life
Deep within
Instead of asking your life
To run the fastest.

38,401.
Do not blend in with the crowd
If you really want to offer
Something special
To the world.

38,735.
Time
Is afraid of God.
It does not dare to have
A different opinion.

38,860.
To devour light and bliss
Is, indeed,
An excellent choice.

38,897.
Play with God —
God will stop time.

38,968.
It is high time for me
To stop telling my life-stories
Either to God or to humanity.

39,594.
I meditate every day
With the golden silence
Of the blossoming dawn.

39,679.
God compels and forces some seekers
Who are inwardly fully awakened,
Yet outwardly take time
To abide by God’s Will.

39,786.
My life will be fulfilled
Only when I lose
My earth-existence
In the Heart of the Unknowable.

39,845.
Do not do anything.
Just stay where you are
And wait
For God’s Trumpet Call.

39,899.
The fulfilment of God’s Will
Is the only religion
I proudly claim.

39,901.
Do not try to bring the future
Into your present-day life.
It will hurt you.

40,158.
Laugh at the world.
If you cannot,
Insanity will fast approach you.

40,566.
The source of everything
That we see and feel
Is the Cosmic Energy.

40,923.
Who is your Master,
If not your own
Higher self?

41,055.
Nothing impresses me any more,
Save and except
My own deep meditations.

41,153.
Do not take this world
Very, very seriously.
If you do so,
You are bound to suffer.

41,370.
Time is neutral
To light and darkness.

41,599. I do not live in my creativity.
I live in my surrender
To my Lord’s Will.

42,288.
When we judge others,
We lose our love-power
Immediately.

42,375.
It is sheer foolishness
To be afraid of the Unknown,
For the Unknown is secretly guiding
Our destiny.

42,530.
God will tell you openly
How you can
Realise Him.

42,856.
Once we see God,
The attraction of the world
Fades away.

42,870.
I must transcend
All harsh
Man-made rules.

43,122.
If God is truly pleased
With any seeker,
God can transform his life
In the flash of a moment.

43,675.
My heart’s tears
And my soul’s smiles
Together kiss
My Lord’s Feet.

44,030.
Those who can live without love
Are not ready
For the world of aspiration.

45,190.
The mind is apt to sell
God-Smiles
At a very cheap price.

45,235.
I may be useless
To the whole world,
But I am all useful
To my Lord Supreme.

45,418.
Each seeker
Should discover
His own way
To arrive at God’s Door.

45,991.
Our love of God
Must devour
Our dislike of mankind.

46,854.
I owe a debt of gratitude
Not only to those who help me,
But also to those who hurt me
With their wild criticism.
Why?
Because they unconsciously help me
In my life-perfection-hunger.

46,874.
Nature is
The revealed Beauty
Of God.

47,181.
My Lord of Forgiveness
Is now the Owner
Of my past.

47,638.
The highest type of spirituality
Does not need rituals
At all.

48,151.
I am so happy
And so grateful to God,
For He has not made me
In charge of His world.

48,250.
I must not waste time any more
In useless talking and lecturing.

48,620.
God wants us to be experts,
Not in everything,
But in the things
He chooses for us.

48,791.
Sometimes God compels the inner life
To go slowly with the outer life.
Why?
If the inner life runs fast, very fast,
The outer life will be totally disappointed
And will never practise spirituality.

49,331.
God’s Compassion rains down
Only when we do not care
For either success or progress.

49,989.
You must complete
Your journey
To God’s Heaven-Kingdom
In this life.

The selected poems of Mevlana Celaluddin Rumi. http://wisdomquotes.com/rumi-quotes/

Stop acting so small.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

In silence there is eloquence.

Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.

Be an empty page, untouched by words.

What hurts you, blesses you.

What is planted in each person’s soul will sprout.

The source of now is here.

The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Inside any deep asking is the answering.

Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.