Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.”

— Sri Chinmoy

152. “He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.”

— Sri Chinmoy

153. “This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart.”

— Sri Chinmoy

154. “Forgive, you will have happiness. Forget, you will have satisfacton. Forgive and forget, You will have everlasting peace Within and without.”

— Sri Chinmoy

155. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

156. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

157. “Life is nothing but the expansion of love.”

— Sri Chinmoy

158. “Love your enemy. It will not only puzzle him, But finally illumine him.”

— Sri Chinmoy

159. “In the inner life, if there is no sincerity, nothing can be achieved. And to whom are you being sincere? You are being sincere to yourself. You have a higher reality and you have a lower reality. When you become sincere, immediately you pull your lower reality up to your higher reality. Just like a magnet, your higher reality pulls up your lower reality so that it can take shelter in the higher reality.”

— Sri Chinmoy

160. “The whole world is looking for miracles. Every day it is dying to see miracles. But can there be any miracle More challenging, more illumining And more fulfilling Than to see and feel the infinite Beauty Of my Beloved Supreme Inside this tinier than the tiniest Gratitude-heart of mine?”

— Sri Chinmoy

161. “Patience, increasing patience.”

— Sri Chinmoy

162. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

163. “The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

164. “When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.”

— Sri Chinmoy

165. “My mind’s cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart’s smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.”

— Sri Chinmoy

166. “Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness.”

— Sri Chinmoy

167. “A musician’s biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.”

— Sri Chinmoy

168. “Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.”

— Sri Chinmoy

169. “A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.”

— Sri Chinmoy

170. “When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.”

— Sri Chinmoy

171. “Enthusiasm Rules his inner world. Determination Rules his outer world. Therefore Happiness has become His real name.”

— Sri Chinmoy

172. “Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.”

— Sri Chinmoy

173. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

174. “Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.”

— Sri Chinmoy

175. “I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.”

— Sri Chinmoy

176. “Every second a seeker can start over, For his life’s mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.”

— Sri Chinmoy

177. “Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.”

— Sri Chinmoy

178. “True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.”

— Sri Chinmoy

179. “I begin by imagining the impossible and end by accomplishing the impossible.”

— Sri Chinmoy

180. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

181. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

182. “War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

183. “The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.”

— Sri Chinmoy

184. “The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free access to our soul, we will see that this light is coming to the fore to permeate our whole outer existence.”

— Sri Chinmoy

185. “It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.”

— Sri Chinmoy

186. “Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul.”

— Sri Chinmoy

187. “Miracles are everywhere to be found When I surrender my infinite desires To my immortal aspirations.”

— Sri Chinmoy

188. “A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.”

— Sri Chinmoy

189. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

190. “Not the power to conquer others but the power to become one with others is the ultimate power.”

— Sri Chinmoy

191. “True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.”

— Sri Chinmoy

192. “We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

193. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

194. “Be kind, be all sympathy, For each and every human being Is forced to fight against himself.”

— Sri Chinmoy

195. “No matter how fleeting Your smile is, Your smile is the very beginning Of your wisdom-light.”

— Sri Chinmoy

196. “What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.”

— Sri Chinmoy

197. “There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.”

— Sri Chinmoy

198. “Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth.”

— Sri Chinmoy

199. “I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

200. “What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?”

— Sri Chinmoy