“TO LOVE MYSELF IS THE GREATEST POWER OF MY HEART” A triple shot of positive energy to start your day!
A poem about overcoming my own darkness and awakening to who I am through loving myself PLUS Inspiring wisdom quotes by Louise Hay, Maya Angelou, Yogananda and Amma & An uplifting song you will love!
Lovingly written and published by Chinmayan…
In support of all those seeking to open their hearts and make a loving difference in this painful but beautiful world we share
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POEM FOR TODAY:
TO LOVE MYSELF IS THE GREATEST POWER OF MY HEART
“Loving ourselves works
Miracles in our lives.”
—Louise Hay
“The real difficulty is to overcome
How you think about yourself.
I must undertake to love myself
And to respect myself as though
My life depends on self-love and
Self respect—because it does.”
—Maya Angelou
Pushing hard, I push out
Repeatedly beyond what
I thought was possible--
Out of the mundane and ordinary
Into the realm of
Power, mystery and miracles.
It is not that I go
To some other place,
But that where I am
Is being transformed by
My own inner work of the heart.
As my vision clears,
I see what is actually so,
And rise above the daily lies
We are so good
At telling ourselves.
To get beyond the illusion
And back to truth
Is the underlying purpose
Of all I do
And wish to do--
To be released from
The prisons of my own devise,
I must use the
Very snares themselves
To free myself from all snares—
For in seeing them,
I see how I came
To be ensnared and understand
How illusions can be dissolved.
I do not wish to fight
With my own darkness,
But to overcome it by bathing it
In waves of love and light.
To love myself,
Even while endarkened,
Is the greater power—
For this love gently burns
Off millennia’s worth of dust
That I have allowed to
Settle on and burden and blind
My own yearning spirit.
But, underneath all appearances
And emotions, this brightness shines
And waits, incorruptible and pure,
For me to awaken and embrace
The totality of who I am--
And then the light
Shall pour out on me
From the inside out
And then from the outside in
As I finally rise up and reclaim
The full power and freedom,
The sure knowledge and experience
Of who I, and all of us, truly are.
December 18, 1986
Still Mountain Retreat on First Gate Road
TODAY’S REVELATIONS WISDOM QUOTES….
WHEN YOU YEARN FOR GOD WITH INTENSITY…
During every little period of leisure,
plunge your mind into the infinite thought of Him.
Talk to Him intimately—
He is the nearest of the near,
the dearest of the dear.
Love Him as a miser loves money,
as an ardent man loves his sweetheart,
as a drowning person loves breath.
When you yearn for God with intensity,
He will come to you.
—Sri Paramahansa Yogananda,
In “The Sanctuary of the Soul”
A SPECIAL SONG TO OPEN YOUR HEART and SET YOUR SOUL TO SOARING
From Chinmayan’s curated playlist of the very best kirtans!
This kirtan has just one Name: “RAMA” repeated over and over to a fantastic guitar and back up band that pulsates to the beat of higher consciousness…this is one of the purest and sweetest of songs focused on using this one word mantra which many great masters such as Neem Karoli Baba, Kabir and others have used to attain Realization….
“RAMA RAMA” by Satyaa and Pari
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Transformational Poetry for the Spiritual Soul written by Chinmayan in invocation and celebration of all the open hearted people of the world
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