The Garden of the New Year

I wanted to offer this poem as a  motivational affirmation for the New Year.

Best Wishes for the New Year .

May it be your best Year Yet !

The echo of the sorrow and laughter of last year.

Has died away.

Now the encouraging, hope-imparting, song-voice of the New Year.

Is resounding through Us.

To remodel our life in a new way.

As we enter the portal of the New Year.

All weeds of worries of the past year must be left behind.

And never brought back.

The seeds of all joys and achievements, all hopes,

All good habits and thoughts, all noble desires.

We must garner from the forsaken garden of the past year.

And sow them on the soil of new effort.

Of every day in the New Year.

Watering the good seeds of last year's experiences.

Until our life becomes a fragrant garden.

Of  rare flowering qualities.

Each New Year comes

To awaken our habit-driven spirit

To make new effort.

Until the Eternal Freedom

Is usurped from the hands

Of ever pursuing Karma.

Let Us All, hand in hand,

With ever-enlivened, unending, united mind

Walk and Dance forward

Until we reach the home of complete fulfillment.

From whence we return no more !

By Paramahansa Yogananda. Inner Culture, January 1939. 

 I just ran across this poem as I was going through some boxes and felt I was supposed to share it  ? So there ! I have ! ! HaHa ! ! !

Happy New Year Everyone !