Sri Chinmoy Quotes

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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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The Buddha appeared on earth to dispel by the illumination of knowledge the ignorance that had enveloped the human mass, to release the human soul from the prison-cell of desire into the wideness of the silence and peace of Nirvana.

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Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.

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Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

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Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

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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.

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

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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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Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day.

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Now what should be the relation between science and spirituality? It should be a relation of mutual acceptance and true understanding. It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality. We must not do that. Neither must we set up the same goal for science and spirituality.

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To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace.

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The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.

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Science depends on outer experiment. Spirituality depends on inner searching and seeking. A scientist discovers the power that very often threatens even his own life. A spiritual seeker discovers the power that guides and moulds his life into a life of divine fulfilment.

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Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

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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.

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In my philosophy everyone, including the poor, sick and aged, belongs to one family — God's Family. God is at once poor and rich, sick and healthy, young and old, for He exists inside each and every individual. Here on earth we are all God's children.

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Don't suffer! O my body, O my vital, O my mind, O my heart, do not suffer. 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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A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

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

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

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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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The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.

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Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

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