Sri Chinmoy Sayings

#1. Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#2. A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#3. The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#4. Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#5. Yes, I can!
I certainly can!
I can have
A gratitude-flower-heart
That shall remain open
At all hours. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#6. Now is the time to make good use of time.
Today is the day to begin a perfect day. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#7. If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#8. If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#9. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#10. A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#11. You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#12. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#13. And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#14. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#15. If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#16. Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#17. Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#18. God's philosophy is simpler than the simplest: Never give up, never give up! - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#19. God's foremost treasure on earth
Is my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#20. Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#21. Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#22. I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#23. Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#24. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#25. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#26. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#27. Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#28. I live in between My heart's compassion-rain And my life's oneness-gain. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#29. Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.
Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.
Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#30. Miracles do happen in every human life. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#31. What you powerfully hold
In your thought-world
Will make you either
A street beggar
Or a great king. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#32. Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth, - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#33. Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#34. If your Lord Supreme requests you to do something, rest assured he has already given you the capacity - even more than necessary - long before you actually need it. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#35. Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#36. Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day? - Author: Sri Chinmoy

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

#38. If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#39. The Stormy life can be braved
Only by the heart's
Sunny meditations. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#40. Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#41. Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#42. Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#43. If you dare to fight against hatred, There is but one weapon: Love. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#44. Keep an open heart
To allow the world
Lovingly and faithfully
To come in. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#45. Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#46. In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#47. To make the fastest progress,
Be an absolutely cheerful
Hero-warrior
And take both victory and failure
As parallel experience rivers
Leading to the sea
Of progress-delight. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#48. The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#49. I do not give up,
I never give up,
For there is nothing
In this entire world
That is irrevocably unchangeable. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#50. You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#51. Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#52. Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#53. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#54. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#55. We must endure Adversity Bravely and cheerfully. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#56. I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy
Because I have loved the world
And not myself. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#57. I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them? - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#58. Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God's gratitude, God the only gratitude. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#59. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#60. Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#61. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#62. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#63. Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#64. I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#65. Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#66. Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#67. Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#68. 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? - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#69. My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#70. Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#71. My mind wants to interpret
All my dreams.
My heart wants to love
All my dreams.
My soul wants to fulfil
All my dreams. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#72. When I meditate, I feel I am vast, very vast. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#73. What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#74. If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#75. An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#76. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#77. Patience, increasing patience,
Is all we need
To be victorious
In the battlefield of life. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#78. True success is the only thing that you cannot have unless and until you have offered it to others. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#79. God loves only one philosophy,
And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#80. True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#81. I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the international community for many years to come. - Author: Brian Mulroney

#82. God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#83. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#84. 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. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#85. Today I must dive deep within
And know what I come
To this earth-stage for. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#86. Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#87. To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#88. The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#89. Our goal is self-transcendence - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#90. A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#91. Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#92. God can be seen
Even by the poorest fool,
But not by the self-styled,
God-arguing
Intellectual giants. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#93. Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#94. The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#95. Tell others
When you love them.
This will really make their lives
Worth living. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#96. Precious and spacious
The aspiring heart has to remain
Always. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#97. Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#98. If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#99. Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today. - Author: Sri Chinmoy

#100. Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress. - Author: Sri Chinmoy