Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Allow failure to teach you A supreme lesson: Each sunset is the beginning Of a very, very bright And powerful sunrise.”

— Sri Chinmoy

52. “If peace is not In Nature’s beauty, Then where is it, where?”

— Sri Chinmoy

53. “Peace we achieve When we do not expect anything From the world, But only give, give, and give Unconditionally What we have and what we are.”

— Sri Chinmoy

54. “Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.”

— Sri Chinmoy

55. “If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.”

— Sri Chinmoy

56. “True humility means giving joy to others.”

— Sri Chinmoy

57. “Like kindness, a smile from the heart not only purifies the human mind but also illumines the human heart.”

— Sri Chinmoy

58. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

59. “The Goal can disappear From the mind’s sight But not From the heart’s vision.”

— Sri Chinmoy

60. “When I meditate, I feel I am vast, very vast.”

— Sri Chinmoy

61. “Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.”

— Sri Chinmoy

62. “Meditation is my soul’s soundless conversation with my inner pilot.”

— Sri Chinmoy

63. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

64. “I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.”

— Sri Chinmoy

65. “If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

66. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

67. “The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.”

— Sri Chinmoy

68. “The atom has taught me that the little things do count – most.”

— Sri Chinmoy

69. “Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.”

— Sri Chinmoy

70. “Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one’s conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one’s own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection.”

— Sri Chinmoy

71. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

72. “World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.”

— Sri Chinmoy

73. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

74. “A moment’s truth can and shall make the world beautiful. A moment’s peace can and shall save the world. A moment’s love can and shall make the world perfect.”

— Sri Chinmoy

75. “Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.”

— Sri Chinmoy

76. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

77. “To hope is to see with the eye of the heart.”

— Sri Chinmoy

78. “To hope is to feel the presence of the inner sun. The inner sun is; the outer sun becomes.”

— Sri Chinmoy

79. “Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.”

— Sri Chinmoy

80. “If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing.”

— Sri Chinmoy

81. “Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality’s existence.”

— Sri Chinmoy

82. “Only by our positive thinking, by our bringing the positive qualities of others to the fore, will this world be able to make progress.”

— Sri Chinmoy

83. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

85. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

86. “There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart’s love-breath is.”

— Sri Chinmoy

87. “Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. So do not give up, do not give up! Continue, continue! The goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal.”

— Sri Chinmoy

88. “If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

89. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

90. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

91. “Hate is often an obverse form of love. You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.”

— Sri Chinmoy

92. “Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

93. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

94. “If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.”

— Sri Chinmoy

95. “You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.”

— Sri Chinmoy

96. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

97. “Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.”

— Sri Chinmoy

98. “You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.”

— Sri Chinmoy

99. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

100. “Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.”

— Sri Chinmoy