Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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

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

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203. “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

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

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205. “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

206. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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213. “Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.”

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214. “When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.”

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215. “When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God’s creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?”

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

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217. “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

218. “Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.”

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219. “To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace.”

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220. “Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.”

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221. “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

222. “The problem with fault-findingIs that he who finds fault with othersIs in no way a happy person Even after he has successfully Accomplished his task.”

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223. “A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man’s self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.”

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224. “Do you want to be happy? Then make your life as soulfully simple As sleeplessly breathing.”

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225. “There is nothing more powerful than peace.”

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226. “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.”

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227. “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.”

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228. “There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings.”

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229. “Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.”

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230. “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.”

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231. “Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth.”

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232. “You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?”

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233. “You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world.”

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234. “My soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate.”

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235. “No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

236. “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.”

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237. “When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.”

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238. “If you dare to fight against hatred, There is but one weapon: Love.”

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239. “Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.”

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240. “The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come.”

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241. “Among the fearless soldiers that fight for your victory in life, character has no equal.”

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242. “The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -.”

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243. “It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day. And when we have a meditation of the highest order, then we really get abiding peace, light and delight. We need meditation because we want to grow in light and fulfill ourselves in light. If this is our aspiration, if this is our thirst, then meditation is the only way.”

— Sri Chinmoy

244. “If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.”

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245. “To follow the crowd Is to miss The destination.”

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246. “This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me.”

— Sri Chinmoy

247. “What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite.”

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248. “In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree.”

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249. “How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That’s all.”

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250. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy