(Set 2) During the Sing-along held in December 2019, the Enthusiasm-Awakeners and a few guests read out poems or writings by Sri Chinmoy on the theme “Enthusiasm”.

//  Set 2 // read out during a break

This question was asked by Parvati the day before the Enthusiasm-Awakeners singing group was formed.
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18 December 1999.

Question: How can I find the quality of enthusiasm more appealing?

Sri Chinmoy: You have to use your imagination. Think of something sweet, either honey or something else. Or you can think of divine nectar, which is definitely sweet and immortal. Let us say that you want to taste something sweet in your own life — in your soul, heart, mind, vital and body. Now, if you lick your finger, there is no sweetness. If you taste any part of your body, you will not get sweetness. But you can take enthusiasm as sweetness in your life. You definitely like sweet things, whether it is sugar or honey or something else. There is nobody who can say they do not like sweet things at all. That is absurd.

Take enthusiasm as something very, very sweet and imagine that you are enjoying that sweetness. Never take enthusiasm as something that you cannot enjoy or that is out of your reach. No, no! When you think of enthusiasm, use the word ‘sweetness’ instead of ‘enthusiasm’. Either your heart will enjoy the sweetness, your mind will enjoy the sweetness, your vital will enjoy the sweetness or your body will enjoy the sweetness. You are bound to increase your enthusiasm if you replace the word ‘enthusiasm’ with ‘sweetness’. While you are looking at a flower, if you feel that you are getting sweetness, then that sweetness will give you enthusiasm.

— Sri Chinmoy,
Sri Chinmoy Answers, Part 30 (Agni Press, 2001)


Be not lost
Between your mind’s unwillingness
And your heart’s enthusiasm.
Choose your heart.
Remain in your heart,
With your heart
And for your heart.

— Sri Chinmoy,
Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 138, #13,768 (Agni Press, 1991)


If we want to make the fastest progress
In our spiritual life,
Then we needs must have
A doubt-proof enthusiasm-mind
And
A doubt-proof eagerness-heart.

— Sri Chinmoy,
My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 6, #36 (Agni Press, 2001)


My heart’s soulful
Devotion-skill
Is my life’s momentous
Enthusiasm-thrill.

— Sri Chinmoy,
My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 12, #53 (Agni Press, 2002)


Enthusiasm has determination inside it
In disguise.
Determination has peace inside it
In disguise.
Peace has perfection inside it
In disguise.

— Sri Chinmoy,
Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 57, #5,612 (Agni Press, 1983)


Your heart has been walking
For a long time
Along enthusiasm-road.
Can you not ask your mind
To walk even for a day
On enthusiasm-road?
How can you be truly happy
When your mind fails
To do the right thing?

— Sri Chinmoy,
Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 20, #1,961 (Agni Press, 1983)


Enthusiasm is a divine gift,
And this divine gift
We get from higher worlds.
Enthusiasm lost,
Life-satisfaction is lost;
God-perfection in man
Remains a far cry.

— Sri Chinmoy,
Union and Oneness, #24 (Agni Press, 1976)


What I call my own enthusiasm,
God calls His own Self-expression.
What I call my own sincerity,
God calls His own Self-perfection.

— Sri Chinmoy,
Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 27, #2,690 (Agni Press, 1982)


What we all need
Is an evergreen enthusiasm,
To make progress fast, faster, fastest
In our God-loving and God-serving life.

— Sri Chinmoy,
Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 11, #10,652 (Agni Press, 1999)


Come, my friend enthusiasm, come.
Love all, risk all,
Glow.
Yours is the victory’s golden call.

— Sri Chinmoy,
A Soulful Cry Versus a Fruitful Smile, #494 (Agni Press, 1977)


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