Sri Chinmoy Quotes

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

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.

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

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

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

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

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

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.

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

Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.

Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.

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

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.

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.

If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

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

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.

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

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.

Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.

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.

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

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

Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.

True, this world of ours is full of hatred and disbelief, but that is no reason why we should not love and why we should not believe. We must love and believe in order to empty the hatred-sea.

Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving.

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

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

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

Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry.

O dreamers of peace, come. Let us walk together. O lovers of peace, come. Let us run together. O servers of peace, come. Let us grow together.

Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal.

There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.

Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.

The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

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

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?

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

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

The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.

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.

Precious and spacious The aspiring heart has to remain Always.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.

Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all.

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