Sri Chinmoy Quotes

There is nothing more powerful than peace.

People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.

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

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

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.

Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal.

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Our goal is self-transcendence

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

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.

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

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent Power of peace.

Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.

Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

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

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.

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.

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

Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

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

An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

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

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

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

Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

Wherever you go, go with inspiration and aspiration. Whatever you do, do with love and concern. Whomever you see, see with purity's beauty And responsibility's glory.

To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination.

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

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.

Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner. Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater. Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure. Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now.

At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.