Sri Chinmoy Quotes

What is Yoga? Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-Realization. He who practices Yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life and he gets a freee access to the Divine.

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is.

Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

Miracles do happen in every human life.

Peace begins When expectation ends.

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?

If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large.

We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart.

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.

In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.

Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt.

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.

How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life.

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

Be sincere in your thoughts, Be pure in your feelings. You will not have to run after happiness. Happiness will run after you.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.