Top 350 Sri Chinmoy Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.”

— Sri Chinmoy

302. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

303. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

304. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Sri Chinmoy

309. “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.”

— Sri Chinmoy

310. “Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.”

— Sri Chinmoy

311. “This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.”

— Sri Chinmoy

312. “When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to the fore the wealth that we have deep within us.”

— Sri Chinmoy

313. “O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.”

— Sri Chinmoy

314. “Love is hope. Hope is nectar.”

— Sri Chinmoy

315. “Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

316. “Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.”

— Sri Chinmoy

317. “When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight.”

— Sri Chinmoy

318. “When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.”

— Sri Chinmoy

319. “Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation – except work for it.”

— Sri Chinmoy

320. “If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large.”

— Sri Chinmoy

321. “Love the world With your heart’s dreams. Serve the world With your life’s promises.”

— Sri Chinmoy

322. “A moment of self-giving lifecan conquer the sorrowsof many long years.”

— Sri Chinmoy

323. “A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.”

— Sri Chinmoy

324. “Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or an inner approach to the fulfilment of our outer life. But in order to have true meditation we have to go deep within or follow the guidance of a spiritual Master.”

— Sri Chinmoy

325. “What does peace do? Peace blossoms. What else? Peace spreads. What else? Peace illumines. What else? Peace fulfils.”

— Sri Chinmoy

326. “The power that dominates cannot solve world problems. The power that loves can solve world problems.”

— Sri Chinmoy

327. “I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal.”

— Sri Chinmoy

328. “The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace.”

— Sri Chinmoy

329. “Our soul lives in Peace and lives for Peace. If we live a life of peace, we are ever enriched and never impoverished. Unhorizoned is our inner peace; like the boundless sky, it encompasses all.”

— Sri Chinmoy

330. “Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.”

— Sri Chinmoy

331. “Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.”

— Sri Chinmoy

332. “I live in between My heart’s compassion-rain And my life’s oneness-gain.”

— Sri Chinmoy

333. “Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.”

— Sri Chinmoy

334. “Hope is man’s preparation for the unknown.”

— Sri Chinmoy

335. “You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun.”

— Sri Chinmoy

336. “Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.”

— Sri Chinmoy

337. “When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.”

— Sri Chinmoy

338. “If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.”

— Sri Chinmoy

339. “Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us.”

— Sri Chinmoy

340. “If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.”

— Sri Chinmoy

341. “May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

342. “Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use.”

— Sri Chinmoy

343. “God is not a thing to be achieved, but a thing to be.”

— Sri Chinmoy

344. “And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service.”

— Sri Chinmoy

345. “Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.”

— Sri Chinmoy

346. “I have opened up an account With God’s Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.”

— Sri Chinmoy

347. “We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.”

— Sri Chinmoy

348. “Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity.”

— Sri Chinmoy

349. “Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.”

— Sri Chinmoy

350. “God has not forgotten To give us peace. He is just waiting for us To ask for it.”

— Sri Chinmoy