Sri Chinmoy Quotes

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

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened wide.

True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the mind, vital and body Until everything that we have and are Is a sea of gratitude.

True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.

A single God - touch From God's Compassion - Height Can transform man's unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into God's own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power.

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

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

God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

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

At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun.

Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.

Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become and eternally Be.

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

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

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

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.

Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today.

If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.

Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it.

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.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is oversimplified and underestimated, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.

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

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky.

My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give.

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

Miracles do happen in every human life.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

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

If you are already an awakened soul, Then you must realise That God has already given you A supreme task to perform: He wants you to work For His Vision's world-blossoms.

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

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.

Patience, increasing patience

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day?

Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.

Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

I begin by imagining The impossibleAnd end by accomplishingThe impossible.