Sri Chinmoy Quotes

Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.

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

Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations.

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?

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain.

Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully.

The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.

There is a peace That fruitfully lives for me Infinitely more Than I can live for myself.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

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.

To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.

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

A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years

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

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.

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

God is not a thing to be achieved, but a thing to be.

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.

To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.

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

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.

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

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.

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.

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

A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

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

God tells me that My happy heart Increases the beauty Of His universal Heart.

You may not know, But it is absolutely true: With each heartbeat Your heart is calling: "God, God!" You may not hear it, But God Himself definitely hears Your heart's cry.

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

To conquer the egoIs to gainBoundless freedom.

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

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

Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.

Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.

Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.