Sri Chinmoy Quotes

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

~ Sri Chinmoy

Yesterday I was clever,That is why I wanted to change the world.Today I am wise,That is why I am changing myself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Peace begins when expectations end.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Deepen your faith in yourself.Nothing will be ableTo frighten or weaken you.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find and fulfil it there. There can be no external way for you to fulfil your mission. The deer grows musk in his own body. He smells it and becomes enchanted, and tries to locate its source. He runs and runs, but he cannot find the source. In his endless search, he loses all his energy and finally he dies. But the source he was so desperately searching for was within himself. How could he find it elsewhere?Such is the case with you. Your special mission- which is the fulfilment of your divinity- is not outside you, but within you. Search within. Meditate within. You will discover your mission.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Peace beginsWhen expectation ends.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. 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. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.

~ Sri Chinmoy

World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.

~ Sri Chinmoy

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Have little,Need less:This is the wayTo inner peace.Surrender is a journeyFrom the outer turmoilTo the inner peace.PeaceIs in inner awakening,And this inner awakeningWe must shareWith the rest of the world.

~ Sri Chinmoy

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Your mind has a flood of questions.There is but one teacherWho can answer them.Who is that teacher?Your silence-loving heart.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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

~ Sri Chinmoy

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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

~ Sri Chinmoy

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind

~ Sri Chinmoy

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 againIn all its supernal glory.

~ Sri Chinmoy

True inner joy is self-created.It does not depend on outer circumstances.A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy.This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

~ Sri Chinmoy

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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

~ Sri Chinmoy

Right now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension and disharmony are reigning supreme.But there shall come a time when this world of ours will be flooded with peace.Who is going to bring about this radical change?It will be you: you and your sisters and brothers.You and your oneness-heart will spread peace throughout the length and breadth of the world.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

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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.

~ Sri Chinmoy

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 commenceIn the heart of freedom.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I begin by imagining The impossibleAnd end by accomplishingThe impossible.

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You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Be kind, be all sympathy,For each and every human beingIs forced to fight against himself.

~ Sri Chinmoy

If we feel secureIn the depths of our heart,We shall not challenge anybody,For inner confidenceIs nothing short ofComplete satisfaction.

~ Sri Chinmoy

To make the fastest progress,Be an absolutely cheerfulHero-warriorAnd take both victory and failureAs parallel experience riversLeading to the sea Of progress-delight.

~ Sri Chinmoy

In between your failure-treeAnd your triumph-tree,The tree that is growingIs known as your patience-tree.

~ Sri Chinmoy

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.

~ Sri Chinmoy

Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

~ Sri Chinmoy

The language of the heartIs the only languageThat everybody can understand.

~ Sri Chinmoy