Sri Chinmoy Quotes

A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.

I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest.

True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind.

Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.

When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.

lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love.

First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.

Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.

Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.

Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.

In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.

Never give up! Never give up! Physical fitness is of paramount importance. There is no age limit when we live in the heart and when we try to be of prayerful and soulful service to God in the heart of humanity.

The power that dominates cannot solve world problems. The power that loves can solve world problems.

God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

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?

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.

Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.

Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself.

Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.

Our goal is self-transcendence

A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.

To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction.

Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.