Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.”

— Sri Chinmoy

152. “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

153. “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

154. “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

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

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156. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.”

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

164. “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

165. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

166. “The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory.”

— Sri Chinmoy

167. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

171. “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

172. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

176. “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

177. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

179. “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.”

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180. “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

181. “In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner strength. Now, if somebody is really inwardly strong, he is always at peace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

182. “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

183. “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

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

— Sri Chinmoy

185. “Truth is in all, But love is all.”

— Sri Chinmoy

186. “Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.”

— Sri Chinmoy

187. “Each aspirant has to be a divine soldier. He must consciously and constantly use his divine energy to drill himself into a liberated soul.”

— Sri Chinmoy

188. “God does not care If I am bad or good- He wants my love, Not my sainthood.”

— Sri Chinmoy

189. “Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.”

— Sri Chinmoy

190. “An unaspiring person believes according to what he achieves. An aspiring person achieves according to what he believes.”

— Sri Chinmoy

191. “Character is blazing sunshine in the soul’s abode, the body.”

— Sri Chinmoy

192. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

193. “If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.”

— Sri Chinmoy

194. “The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.”

— Sri Chinmoy

195. “By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.”

— Sri Chinmoy

196. “I’m not a weight lifter. I’m a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.”

— Sri Chinmoy

197. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

198. “Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today.”

— Sri Chinmoy

199. “The world’s oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.”

— Sri Chinmoy

200. “Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God.”

— Sri Chinmoy