Top 100 Sri Chinmoy Quotes
#1. What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.
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#2. My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.
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#3. A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.
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#7. Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.
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#8. If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.
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#9. Tell others
When you love them.
This will really make their lives
Worth living.
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#10. 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.
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#11. The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.
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#12. Patience, increasing patience,
Is all we need
To be victorious
In the battlefield of life.
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#13. 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.
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#14. I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
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#15. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.
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#16. A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.
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#17. If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.
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#18. Now is the time to make good use of time.
Today is the day to begin a perfect day.
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#19. The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded.
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#20. A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.
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#21. The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.
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#22. 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.
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#23. Your defeats in life's battlefield
Will soon be ending,
Because your mind is no longer indifferent
To your heart's spontaneous enthusiasm.
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#24. I meditate
So that I can inundate
My entire being
With the omnipotent power of peace.
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#25. I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
I shall love myself and love myself.
I shall be my own quest,
My absolute wealth.
The journey of light supreme will commence
In the heart of freedom.
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#26. 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.
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#27. To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination.
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#28. To inspire others
Is to be immediately rich
In the inner world.
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#29. Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.
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#30. To receive one thing with gratitude is to give ten things in return.
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#31. God tells me that
My happy heart
Increases the beauty
Of His universal Heart.
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#32. 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?
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#33. The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.
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#37. Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity.
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#38. Doubt is an old disease.
Faith is an old medicine.
Compassion is an old doctor.
Concern is an old nurse.
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#39. There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.
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#40. 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.
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#41. When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.
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#42. I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
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#46. Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.
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#47. 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.
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#48. The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.
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#49. In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.
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#50. I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.
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#51. Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine.
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#52. Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness.
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#53. 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.
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#54. Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.
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#55. Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.
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#56. 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.
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#57. Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.
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#58. Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.
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#62. Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.
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#63. Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.
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#64. Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.
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#65. Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.
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#66. What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.
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#67. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.
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#68. 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.
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#69. If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.
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#70. Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world
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#71. If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.
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#72. Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.
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#73. Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.
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#77. It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.
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#78. If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.
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#79. True humility means giving joy to others.
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#80. When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.
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#83. To conquer the egoIs to gainBoundless freedom.
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#84. To hope is to send darkest night into exile.
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#85. 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.
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#86. Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.
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#87. Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.
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#88. 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
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#89. No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.
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#90. A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.
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#91. Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.
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#92. If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?
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#93. You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does
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#94. The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine?
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#95. 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.
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#96. The language of the heart
Is the only language
That everybody can understand.
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#97. Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.
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#98. Hope knows no fear.
Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.
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#99. Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth.
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#100. Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.
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