Sri Chinmoy Quotes

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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

Sri Chinmoy
Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

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Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

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The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

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If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.

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

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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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I take the greatest lesson from compassion — it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

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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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If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

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

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Be kind, be all sympathy, for each and every human being is forced to fight against himself.

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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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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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To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

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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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Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.

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I feel it is through prayer, meditation, and dedicated service that world peace can take place. Each individual has to try to make others happy, for it is only through happiness that we can have peace.

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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.

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First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

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Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.

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The atom has taught me that the little things do count — most.

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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.

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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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I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.

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What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

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

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Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.

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

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Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all.

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