Chinmoy Quotes & Sayings

The language of the heart
Is the only language
That everybody can understand. — Sri Chinmoy

Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version. — Sri Chinmoy

If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction. — Sri Chinmoy

What comes to me unmistakably is what I carefully or carelessly invite. — Sri Chinmoy

A gratitude-heart
Is to discover on earth
A Heaven-delivered rose — Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy was a once in a lifetime spiritual leader who touched the lives of millions of people through his teachings, art, athletics, and music. He was a student of peace and he embodied peace. Sri Chinmoy was a great man and his life's work significantly helped to build world harmony and will continue to do so. — Al Gore

God's foremost treasure on earth
Is my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. — Sri Chinmoy

You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment. — Sri Chinmoy

We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace. — Sri Chinmoy

To be rich is to give a smile with no expectation of return. — Sri Chinmoy

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

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else. — Sri Chinmoy

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace. — Sri Chinmoy

Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yourself?
Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea. — Sri Chinmoy

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love. — Sri Chinmoy

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him. — Sri Chinmoy

God loves only one philosophy,
And that is the Do-it-here-now philosophy. — Sri Chinmoy

A moment's truth
Can and shall make the world beautiful.
A moment's peace
Can and shall save the world.
A moment's love
Can and shall make the world perfect. — Sri Chinmoy

You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to the world. — Sri Chinmoy

The world badly needs more peaceful and loving men like Sri Chinmoy. I am a Muslim and he is serving all people of peace. Sri Chinmoy is doing so much for the world, for people of all faiths, because of his own peace and faith. — Muhammad Ali

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

There is no greater miracle than our conscious efforts to become good human beings. — Sri Chinmoy

The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart. — Sri Chinmoy

The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don't like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way. But once you know what your best meditation is, please stick to it. — Sri Chinmoy

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road. — Sri Chinmoy

Man's eternal question is:'Who is God?'God's immediate answer is:'My child, who else is God, if not you? — Sri Chinmoy

Look at your heart-flower and smile.
You will be able to solve your most pressing problems. — Sri Chinmoy

I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest. — Sri Chinmoy

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker is aware of the truth that belief is power, but he cannot go beyond understanding or awareness; whereas a sincere, genuine, devoted and surrendered seeker knows that belief is dynamic power, and he has this power as his very own. — Sri Chinmoy

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

A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity. — Sri Chinmoy

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being. — Sri Chinmoy

What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence? — Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth. — Sri Chinmoy

Hope knows no fear.
Hope dares to blossom even inside the abysmal abyss.
Hope secretly feeds and strengthens promise. — Sri Chinmoy

Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the surface of the sea there may be a multitude of waves but the sea is not affected below. In its deepest depths, the sea is all silence. When we start meditating, first we try to reach our own inner existence, our true existence- that is to say, the bottom of the sea. Then when the waves come from the outside world, we are not affected. Fear, doubt, worry and all the earthly turmoils just wash away, because inside us is solid peace. Thoughts cannot touch us, because our mind is all peace, all silence, all oneness. Like fish in the sea, they jump and swim but leave no mark. When we are in our highest meditation, we feel that we are the sea, and the animals in the sea cannot affect us. We feel that we are the sky, and all the birds flying past cannot affect us. Our mind is the sky and our heart is the infinite sea. This is meditation. — Sri Chinmoy

Remain cheerful, For nothing destructive can pierce through The solid wall of cheerfulness. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest. — Sri Chinmoy

Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection. — Sri Chinmoy

The Stormy life can be braved
Only by the heart's
Sunny meditations. — Sri Chinmoy

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds. — Sri Chinmoy

The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature. — Sri Chinmoy

To hope is to send darkest night into exile. — Sri Chinmoy

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself. — Sri Chinmoy

We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change? — Sri Chinmoy

The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person. — Sri Chinmoy

The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded. — Sri Chinmoy

In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. — Sri Chinmoy

When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us. — Sri Chinmoy

Peace begins when expectations end. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of
a lifetime. — Sri Chinmoy

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility. — Sri Chinmoy

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love. — Sri Chinmoy

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. — Sri Chinmoy

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

My service to humanity
Is my real opportunity
To prove my genuine love
For God and God alone. — Sri Chinmoy

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

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. So do not give up, do not give up! Continue, continue! The goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal. — Sri Chinmoy

True humility means giving joy to others. — Sri Chinmoy

To inspire others
Is to be immediately rich
In the inner world. — Sri Chinmoy

If your Lord Supreme requests you to do something, rest assured he has already given you the capacity - even more than necessary - long before you actually need it. — Sri Chinmoy

Right now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension and disharmony are reigning supreme.
But there shall come a time when this world of ours will be flooded with peace.
Who is going to bring about this radical change?
It will be you: you and your sisters and brothers.
You and your oneness-heart will spread peace throughout the length and breadth of the world. — Sri Chinmoy

Peace begins
When expectation ends. — Sri Chinmoy

You do not have to be The fastest starter. Just be a starter! You will, without fail, Reach your destination-sun. — Sri Chinmoy

The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come. — Sri Chinmoy

Patience, increasing patience,
Is all we need
To be victorious
In the battlefield of life. — Sri Chinmoy

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence. — Sri Chinmoy

I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle? — Sri Chinmoy

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations. — Sri Chinmoy

What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the word 'wisdom' is not used in that way. Here wisdom means Light, illumining Light, transforming Light. That which illumines our unlit consciousness is wisdom. That which transforms the finite consciousness into the infinite Consciousness is called wisdom. — Sri Chinmoy

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

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

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being. — Sri Chinmoy

True religion has a universal quality. It does not find fault with other religions. False religions will find fault with other religions; they will say that theirs is the only valid religion and their prophet is the only saviour. But a true religion will feel that all the prophets are saviours of mankind. — Sri Chinmoy

Life is effort. So says the body. Life is blessing. So says the soul. — Sri Chinmoy

Do not cherish suffering. Don't act like a fool. Don't think that your suffering is going to accelerate your spiritual progress. — Sri Chinmoy

To free our body from fear what we need is the glorious experience of the soul. — Sri Chinmoy

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

If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your aura. It is like the fragrance of a flower. In most cases if there is a beautiful flower, the fragrance will be there naturally. The flower and its fragrance cannot be separated. — Sri Chinmoy

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. - — Sri Chinmoy

And in self-giving we become really happy. Real humility is the expansion of our consciousness and our service. — Sri Chinmoy

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

You may not know,
But it is absolutely true:
With each heartbeat
Your heart is calling: "God, God!"
You may not hear it,
But God Himself definitely hears
Your heart's cry. — Sri Chinmoy

Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love — Sri Chinmoy

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. — Sri Chinmoy

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

How beautiful to look at When my prayer Lights a candle of hope In my heart. — Sri Chinmoy

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

To conquer the egoIs to gainBoundless freedom. — Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes. — Sri Chinmoy