Quotes from Sri Chinmoy

Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

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

Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become and eternally Be.

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

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

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

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in the heart, we try to encompass the full world, and by loving the world, we get joy.

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

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

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

Hate is often an obverse form of love.You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.

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

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

Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light.

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

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

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

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.

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

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

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.

Each good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art.

Greatness is a matter of a moment. Goodness is the work of a lifetime.