Sri Chinmoy Quotes

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me.

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.

The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

Our mind thinks of death, our heart thinks of life, and our soul thinks of immortality.

We are all God's children.
But world-peace-dreamers,
world-peace-lovers
and world-peace-servers
are undoubtedly
God's choicest children.

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.

The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace.

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.

Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine.

True humility means giving joy to others.

Peace begins when expectations end.

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.

True meditation can never be done with the mind. Very often we make a mistake when we say that we are meditating in the mind and utilising the mind. Real meditation is done in the psychic being and in the soul. It goes hand in hand with flaming aspiration, the burning flame that wants to climb up to the Highest.

When I meditate, I feel I am vast, very vast.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality's existence.

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.

To see the divine in others, we have to love. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. This oneness comes from our conscious acceptance of his reality as it is.

My service to humanity
Is my real opportunity
To prove my genuine love
For God and God alone.

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.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

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

What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.

Hope knows no fear.
Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.

Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

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

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

Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.

Life is given to each human being
For a very special purpose.
This secret each human being
Must discover for himself.

God's foremost treasure on earth
Is my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.

Today I must dive deep within
And know what I come
To this earth-stage for.

One positive seed-thought Has saved me, My entire life: My Lord Supreme Will always love me No matter what I do Or what I say Or even what I become.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen.

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.

If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.

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 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.

Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.

Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.

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.

O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.

Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth,

Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently.
Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.
Silence awakens the sleeping seeker in me.
Silence enlightens the aspiring seeker in me.
Silence fulfills the self-giving seeker in me.

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace.

No love
Which is not love
For all.

My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.

The Goal can disappear From the mind's sight But not From the heart's vision.

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it.
Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.

Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love

When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.

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.

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.

By whose touch does the lily smile
And open its beauty – bud?
Whose moonlit beauty
Do I see in the lily?
Who is the Eye of my eye;
Who is the Heart of my heart?
Alas, then why do I not see Him,
His face of transcendental Beauty,
Even in my dreams?

Peace begins
When expectation ends.

To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination.

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we live in the mind, we will only try to separate one religion from another and see how their ideologies differ. It is the heart that can have a true intuitive understanding of the height and breadth of all religions. It is the heart that sees and feels the inner harmony and oneness of all religions.

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.

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

No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

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.

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

The Stormy life can be braved
Only by the heart's
Sunny meditations.

Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

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

God's first Smile was born
The day humanity awoke
To His Light.

If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.

We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.

Yes, I can!
I certainly can!
I can have
A gratitude-flower-heart
That shall remain open
At all hours.

Be in love with your heart-life.
There, only there,
Is the flood of happiness.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

The determination in your heroic effort
Will permeate your mind and heart
Even after your success or failure
Is long forgotten.

May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.

Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.

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

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.

If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.

My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

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

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

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