Spiritual-Heart Poems

All poetry by Sri Chinmoy

The majority of these poems have been selected from Sri Chinmoy's poetry series Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees and Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants.

Wherever he goes
His heart carries for him
A thousand prayer-flowers.


Create a new world
With your heart's sympathy
You will become perfect.


Prayers are the beautiful wings
And meditations
Are the soulful birds
Of my heart.


Beautiful
Is the earth-illumining song
Of my heart.
Fruitful
Is the life-transforming dance
Of my soul.


Every day
I must strengthen my aspiration-heart
With a new supply
Of confidence-delight
So that my heart does not suffer
From security-shortage.


My heart
Because you choose
To live compassionately
My life and I
Hope to live happily.


Think of others -
Your heart will be pleased with you.


I am ready to lose everything
Save and except two things:
My heart's beautiful hope
And my soul's powerful promise.


Nothing is as beautiful in man
As his heart's sincerity.


Be a simple life
Earth needs your help.
Be a pure heart
Heaven needs your help.


Be a heart of patience
And a life of dynamism.


Three signs of progress:
To do something better
Than you have previously done it,
To maintain your standard,
To have a cheerful heart
Even if your standard goes down.


Only think of your heart's happiness
And how you can keep
Your entire being happy.
Wherever you go,
Carry happiness with you.


If your life does not give joy to others,
Then how can you expect
Your heart to give joy
To you.


A happiness heart
Knows no sign
Of fatigue.


Every morning
I decorate my life
With my heart's
Rainbow colours.


A peaceful heart offers
A blissful fragrance.


May each thought of mine
Come from the sunshine
Of my heart's love.


To brighten your life
You must
Widen your heart.


Each self-giving feeling
In our heart
Is the celestial radiance
Of our soul-beauty.


Talk and act
From the heart
Of your generosity.


My heart longs to be dissolved
In wings of air
And fly in the unhorizoned sky.


You have made me discover
In the very depths of my heart
That You are at once
Great and small,
You are at once
The Finite and the Infinite.


Mine is the wisdom-light
That tells me to ask not for
A lighter burden
But a stronger heart.


A breath of devotion
Is a heart
Of rainbow-beauty.


Dawn shows us
The beauty of the sky
And the purity of our hearts.


Self-giving is the light
That can easily illumine
The heart's insecurity.


You can do so much
For the outer world.
Where is your heart of sympathy,
Where?


An unseen ringing bell
Inside my heart
Is giving me unfathomable joy.


Mankind needs a new heart.
A heart that appreciates
The beauty in others
And the fragrance of other's souls.


My heart shall
No more dream
Empty dreams.


The cries of my heart
And the dreams of my soul
Always live together.


May my life unfold itself
Like the lotus
Inside my heart every day.


May my heart ring
Sleeplessly and breathlessly
Like the most sacred temple bell.


Not slowly,
But prayerfully and soulfully live
To have a heart of love
And a life of peace.


Where do I live?
I live in the soul
Of my happy heart.


The heart that loves
Unites all.


I must feel
That my heart
Is a most significant source
Of divine Truth.


The tranquility of my heart
Embodies
God's boundless love.


We get the lessons of the heart
Only when we walk along
The sunlit path.


When two oneness-hearts talk
To each other,
We see the most beautiful dance
Of affection and sweetness.


Every day
Greet the world
With a blossoming smile
From your heart.


May my daily life
Be the purity
Of my heart-shrine.


Heaven
Is inside my heart,
Neither higher, nor deeper.


Each human being
Is a
Striving heart.


My soul's sunlit path
Is beautifully covered
With my heart's rose petals.


May my heart play and sing
Every day
In the silence-beauty
And peace-fragrance
Of my soul.


We must create our inner temples
With our heart's
Rich cries and smiles.


We have created our mind,
But God has created our heart.
Something more:
With His own Hand.


May my heart
Be always fragrant
With divine ideals.


A heart of silence
Has the capacity
To deepen
The poise of the mind.


I want to become
My heart's
Spontaneous expression.


May self-giving
Be my heart's
Passion.


A smiling child
Is the owner
Of a rainbow-heart.


The heart of goodness
Unmistakably
I need.


If you can hold the creation
In your heart,
You will see everything beautiful,
Everything fruitful,
In your inner life and your outer life.


Try with your heart's smile power
To change the world.
You will succeed.


My life will be incomplete
If my heart is empty
Of tears
And my soul is empty
Of smiles.


The transformation of life
Begins with a soulful smile
Of the heart.


The beauty of his eyes
Lives inside
The purity of his heart.


O seeker,
Bring to the fore
Your inner heart-beauty
And radiate it.


If you do not find peace
Inside your own heart,
Then you will not find it
Anywhere else on earth.


In spite of the advance
Of my earthly years,
Every day
I wish to remain
A child at heart.


My heart is longing fore
Simplicity's life
And sincerity's breath.


Our differences disappear
The moment we come to realise
That all hearts are one.


The love that the heart
Cannot trust
Can never last.


I need a simple heart
That gives constant joy
To others.


I need two things
To gladden my heart:
The beauty of tolerance
And the fragrance of patience.


If you develop harmony with all,
Then yours will be a heart
Totally free from sorrow.


What I need is a heart
That sleeplessly cares.
What I need is a life
That endlessly dares,
And nothing more.


Good hearts
Are not hard to find
Provided
Pure lives look for them.


A heart of inner purity
Is bound to have
A life of outer beauty.


Each soulful thought
Helps the heart sour
With newly blossomed joys.


The heart whispers.
Immediately
The world hears.


The heart has a very special way
To see the world
With the help
Of something adorable:
Faith.


If your heart
Does not reach down,
How can your life
Lift any human being
On earth.


Mine is the heart
That does everything
As whispered by the soul.


You do not have to broadcast
The beauty and purity of your heart.
Your face can and will
Do it for you.


My heart is all gratitude
To music,
For it keeps me all the time
In tune with my universal self.


With your life
An innocent heart was born.
With your life
A complicated mind will die.


If you are devoted
To your daring heart,
Then you are bound to be blessed
With a liberated life.


The language of the heart
Is the only language
That everybody can understand.
The wisdom of the heart
Cannot be fooled
By the clever mind.


Try to listen
To the dictates of your heart,
And try to establish
Your inseparable oneness
With the rest of the world.


The more
The heart can do,
The greater
The life becomes.


The heart-tears
Of every human being
Are so beautiful and precious.


Unless and until
You have developed
A heart inundated with compassion,
Do not sit
On the seat of judgement.


Widen your heart
To include the four corners
Of the globe
In your own life.


Be a true friend
Of your own heart.
Lo and behold,
All will befriend you.


To see
A face of love
Is to feel
A heart of peace.


The sunlit smile
Of your eyes
Comes directly from
The peace
Of your heart.


~ Sri Chinmoy