International Day of Happiness

Sharani

Today is the sixth annual International Day of Happiness, first started by the UN and observed on March 20th around the world. I find inspiration for growing happiness in the poems, quotes, prayers and aphorisms of Sri Chinmoy.

Here are a few that provide a spiritual and wise perspective on the subject of happiness.

Be happy, divinely happy.
In your divine happiness
Is your unimaginable progress.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 236.

Those who run after happiness
Will never be happy.
Happiness is something
That has to come to the fore
From within.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 41.

I do not calculate  Happiness.I onlyOffering worship to You,
I am so happy,
My Lord.
I am also happy
Because this happiness of mine
Nobody can steal.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 5.

Happiness
Is always an expansion
Of the heart.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 21.

Joyful Noise

Sharani

My first song composition – usually I enjoy writing prose or poetry and do not fancy myself to be much of a singer or musician. I barely read sheet music. Yet while meditating and praying at home last week, this song came to me clear as a bell. My friend Archee, a piano teacher and serious musician, kindly transcribed it! Here it is – I sing it silently and out loud in almost a mantric fashion since it arrived in my life. I LOVE IT!

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Sweet Peace Run Moments

Sharani

I loved being part of a Peace Run display/torch sharing with the Cape Verdean Independence Day Festival. Scenes from the event just published to the Peace Run official website. One of our members of the Rhode Island Sri Chinmoy Centre was born in Cabo Verde (formerly called Cape Verde) and I was so inspired to learn more about Cape Verdean culture and to hear the President of Cabo Verde speak in Rhode Island with many state and federal officials present for the event.

The pictures tell the story here.