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I Do Not Compete With Anybody Else; I Compete Only With Myself. You Saw My Capacity A Few Minutes Ago. Now I Am Competing With Myself. When I Do Weightlifting, My Body Is My World. If I Can Improve Myself, If I Can Go Beyond My Previous Achievements, Then That Is My Goal. My Own Previous Record Is Always What I Am Competing With.

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I Do Not Compete

Sri Chinmoy

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I Do Not Compete With Anybody Else; I Compete Only With Myself. You Saw My Capacity A Few Minutes Ago. Now I Am Competing With Myself. When I Do Weightlifting, My Body Is My World. If I Can Improve Myself, If I Can Go Beyond My Previous Achievements, Then That Is My Goal. My Own Previous Record Is Always What I Am Competing With.

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When We Pray And Meditate Sincerely And Soulfully, We Receive An Open-hearted Invitation From Heaven.

Life Is Given To Each Human Being For A Very Special Purpose. This Secret Each Human Being Must Discover For Himself.

The Things That Most Deserve Our Gratitude We Just Take For Granted. Without Air We Cannot Live For More Than A Minute Or Two. Everyday We Are Breathing In And Breathing Out, But Do We Ever Feel Grateful To The Air? If We Do Not Drink Water, We Cannot Survive. Even Our Body Is Composed To A Large Extent Of Water.but Do We Give Any Value To Water? Every Morning When We Open Our Eyes, We See The Sun Blessingfully Offering Us Light And Life-energy, Which We Badly Need. But Are We Grateful To The Sun?

People Who Plead With You For Favours May Eventually Prove To Be Great Flatterers. Your Friends Are Only Those Who All The Time Cheerfully Support Your Heart's Aspiration-flames.

When We Meditate We Expand, Spreading Our Wings Like A Bird, Trying To Enter Consciously Into Infinity, Eternity And Immortality, Welcoming Them Into Our Aspiring Consciousness. We See, Feel And Grow Into The Entire Universe Of Light-delight.

Only One Flagflies Above All The Rest:the Flag Of Universal Oneness.

The Heart-flute Knows How To Charm The World.

Listen To The Inner Light; It Will Guide You. Listen To The Inner Peace; It Will Feed You. Listen To The Inner Love; It Will Transform You, It Will Divinise You, It Will Immortalise You.

Meditation Upon The Unknown Thought He Thought Was Real Meditation. No, Meditation Is Not And Cannot Be On Any Thought. Meditation Is A Conscious Withdrawal From The Thought-world. Meditation Is The Place Where Reality, Divinity And Immortality Can Each Claim Their Own Perennial Existence-light.

If You Have Inner Peace, Nobody Can Force You To Be A Slave To The Outer Reality.

My Heart's Gratitude Is My Life's Plenitude.

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