Sri Chinmoy
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?Collection: Feet
lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love.Collection: Fighting
If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we live in the mind, we will only try to separate one religion from another and see how their ideologies differ. It is the heart that can have a true intuitive understanding of the height and breadth of all religions. It is the heart that sees and feels the inner harmony and oneness of all religions.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Morning
No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.Collection: Fighting
What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest.Collection: Land
A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long yearsCollection: Self
Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.Collection: Positive Thinking
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.Collection: Heart
Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.Collection: Character
Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.Collection: Language Of Love
If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.Collection: World
A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.Collection: Character
Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.Collection: Mean
The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?Collection: Joy
To hope is to send darkest night into exile.Collection: Night
Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.Collection: Men
Hope is man's inner effort.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Peace
Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.Collection: Peace
Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky.Collection: Ocean
Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.Collection: Heart
True spirituality is the acceptance of earth-life. A true seeker is he who accepts life, transforms life and perfects life so that the earth-life can become a conscious instrument of God.Collection: Acceptance
Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.Collection: Perfection
Of all the gifts You have offered to God, Your happiness-gift He treasures most.Collection: Happiness
Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.Collection: God
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.Collection: Heart
Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.Collection: Expression
Science has the capacity to show mankind the full development of the mental life. Spirituality has the capacity to show mankind the possibility and inevitability of the life beyond the mind, the supramental life.Collection: Mind
The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.Collection: Music
Why do we fail? Is it because we are unlucky? Is it because we have not worked very hard? I s it because we have not invoked God's Compassion and Blessings? Is it because God has accepted this failure as an experience He wanted to have in our life? Is it because God has granted this failure to us? Is it because God has willed that we should lose? No! not it is for a different reason that we experience failure. It is for the strengthening of our consciousness that, at times, God grants us defeat.Collection: Failure
Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.Collection: Simple
Before the final curtain goes down On my life, I shall say to my Mother-Earth, "My gratitude-heart is all for you, All for you."Collection: Mother
Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal.Collection: Character
Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.Collection: Motivational
Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal.Collection: Goal
Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.Collection: Silence
Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.Collection: Peace
Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.Collection: Encouragement
Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.Collection: Blessing
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.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Eye
No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.Collection: Light
Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Life