Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.”

— Sri Chinmoy

252. “Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.”

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253. “Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.”

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254. “The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves.”

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255. “To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul.”

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256. “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.”

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257. “What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.”

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258. “All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.”

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259. “Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth.”

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260. “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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261. “I take the greatest lesson from compassion – it takes away all the conceit out of my life.”

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262. “At times to think of one’s outer helplessness is good, but to think always of one’s inner strength is infinitely better.”

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263. “Not by talking, but by praying And becoming something good, Can we offer peace to the world.”

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264. “There comes a time in the seeker’s life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.”

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265. “Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.”

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266. “An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.”

— Sri Chinmoy

267. “Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.”

— Sri Chinmoy

268. “Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.”

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269. “Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God’s Fire we need to love.”

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270. “The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.”

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271. “Who is the winner? Not he who wins but he who has established his cheerful oneness with the result, which is an experience in the form of failure or success, a journey forward or a journey backward.”

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272. “Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.”

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273. “Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.”

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274. “There is no fundamental difference between one religion and another, because each religion embodies the ultimate Truth. Each religion is right, absolutely right, because each religion conveys the message of Truth in its own way.”

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275. “Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.”

— Sri Chinmoy

276. “Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.”

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277. “Man’s eternal question is:‘Who is God?’God’s immediate answer is:’My child, who else is God, if not you?”

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278. “The human mind is utterly stupid when it carries, quite willingly, the heavy burden of resentment.”

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279. “Instead of telling the world What it is supposed to do, Why don’t you immediately do it yourself? In this way, I assure you, Your happiness will be surprisingly multiplied.”

— Sri Chinmoy

280. “If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.”

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281. “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

282. “When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.”

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283. “How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart.”

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284. “Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.”

— Sri Chinmoy

285. “There is a peace That fruitfully lives for me Infinitely more Than I can live for myself.”

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286. “To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.”

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

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288. “What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.”

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289. “Let us serve the world soulfully. The pay we will receive for our service will be in the currency of gratitude, God’s gratitude, God the only gratitude.”

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290. “Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.”

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

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292. “Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life’s true work of art.”

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293. “There is no yawning gulf between man and God. Through his aspiration and meditation, Man can become conscious of his oneness with God.”

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294. “Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.”

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295. “A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.”

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296. “It is not human nature to enjoy what we get with no effort.”

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297. “To hope is to send darkest night into exile.”

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298. “Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light.”

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299. “Only two miracles are worth seeing: The miracle of loving And The miracle of forgiving.”

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300. “My Lord does not want to know what I have done for Him. He just wants to know how I am. If he hears from me that I am happy, then he himself becomes exceedingly happy. In umistakable terms He tells me that my happiness is His real and only Satisfaction.”

— Sri Chinmoy