Quotes from 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

My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.

My meditation Is my life's Intensity-profundity- Experience-delight

Smile, smile , smile At your mind As often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce Your mind's tearing tension.

Americas special strength lies not in frightening the weak and challenging the strong, but in strengthening the weak and illumining the strong.

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

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

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

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

The difficulty is that we try to perfect others before we perfect ourselves

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

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

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.

Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.

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.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

The stormy life can be braved only by the heart's sunny meditations.

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

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

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

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?

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

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

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