Mere acceptance of the spiritual life
Is not enough.
You must avail yourself
Of each golden opportunity,
And throw your heart and soul
Into your progress-life.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 75, Agni Press, 1983
O Lord of Nature, sovereign Sun of all!
Who, if not Thou, will speak of Thee?
Thy smile of Grace through Eternity
Frees all aspiring souls from night's dumb call.
Reality Unique! Thou art the ring,
Of the lowest chasm and spanless height.
In Thee they feel their haven bright;
In Thee all beings move and wave and wing.
To see Thy all transcending mystic Form
No vision have we of golden gaze;
Thou are the noon of all our days,
The veerless Pilot in our death's stark storm.