Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide.”

— Sri Chinmoy

52. “Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song – God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.”

— Sri Chinmoy

53. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

57. “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

58. “Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God’s Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.”

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

60. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

62. “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

63. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

65. “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

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

72. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

75. “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

76. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

78. “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

79. “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

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

83. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

86. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

94. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

95. “Even the tiniest of hopes can show me the way to arrive at my goal.”

— Sri Chinmoy

96. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

97. “The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.”

— Sri Chinmoy

98. “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

99. “God’s Compassion – Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions.”

— Sri Chinmoy

100. “What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example: advice.”

— Sri Chinmoy