Sri Chinmoy
Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality.Collection: Reality
Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity.Collection: Cutting
Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large.Collection: Self
The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace.Collection: Bodybuilding
Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.Collection: Song
Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress.Collection: Spiritual
Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.Collection: Flower
All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.Collection: Athlete
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now.Collection: Heart
Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.Collection: Peace
Man thinks his mind's love for world power and his heart's love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man's stupidity.Collection: Peace
Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.Collection: Yoga
World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.Collection: Peace
This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.Collection: Peace
To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.Collection: Heart
What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?Collection: Self
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.Collection: Life
We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.Collection: Heart
God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directionsCollection: Eye
And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.Collection: Real
Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.Collection: Winning
What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.Collection: Invites
When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.Collection: Yoga
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.Collection: Men
Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.Collection: Real
This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.Collection: Compassion
How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.Collection: Criticism
When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.Collection: Appreciation
Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.Collection: Meditation
Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.Collection: Life
Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.Collection: Heart
Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.Collection: Life
God is the Supreme Musician. It is He who is playing with us, on us and in us. We cannot separate God from His music. The universal Consciousness is constantly being played by the Supreme Himself, and is constantly growing into the Supreme Music.Collection: Musician
We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.Collection: Hate
Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.Collection: Spiritual
Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven and earth.Collection: Simple
There is no fundamental difference between one religion and another, because each religion embodies the ultimate Truth. Each religion is right, absolutely right, because each religion conveys the message of Truth in its own way.Collection: Differences
To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.Collection: Hopeful
Spirituality is man's conscious longing for God. Spirituality tells us that God, who is unknowable today, will tomorrow become knowable and, the day after, will become totally known.Collection: Men
Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.Collection: Happiness
Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.Collection: Time
Love of the limited self, the very limited self, is another name for human love. Love of the entire world is another name for divine love.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love