Sri Chinmoy
Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.Collection: Gratitude
If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated.Collection: Beautiful
There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.Collection: Perfect
There is nothing more powerful than peace.Collection: Powerful
Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.Collection: Giving Up
When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight.Collection: Light
The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.Collection: Dream
Our goal is self-transcendenceCollection: Self
Spirituality tells the seeker not to live in the hoary past, not to live in the remote future, but to live in the immediacy of today, in the eternal Now.Collection: Past
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.Collection: Years
At times to think of one's outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one's inner strength is infinitely better.Collection: Strength
There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.Collection: God
Surrender is a journey from the outer turmoil to the inner peace.Collection: Journey
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.Collection: Light
Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.Collection: Life
My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.Collection: Bird
In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.Collection: Strong
Hope knows no fear. Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss. Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise.Collection: Hope
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.Collection: Evil
Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.Collection: Wisdom
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?Collection: Opportunity
Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Yoga
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.Collection: Ignorance
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.Collection: Two
The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.Collection: Children
God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will say that God is all Love. Others will say that God is all Power. Each one will see God according to his own necessity, his own receptivity and, finally, according to the way God wants him to see the ultimate Truth.Collection: God
You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun.Collection: Encouragement
Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you?Collection: Children
One positive seed-thought Has saved me, My entire life: My Lord Supreme Will always love me No matter what I do Or what I say Or even what I become.Collection: Matter
Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.Collection: Suffering
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.Collection: Sea
Each child born on earth Is a unique promise of God To God Himself.Collection: Children
I never fight with reason- I just ignore it.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Heart
One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.Collection: Humble
Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don't you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.Collection: Happiness
When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.Collection: Yoga
Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.Collection: Life
I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.Collection: Two
Love is hope. Hope is nectar.Collection: Love Is
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.Collection: Heart
A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.Collection: Simple
Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt.Collection: Doubt
Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.Collection: Wise