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.

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

You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does.

Goodness Is oneness-love In perfect action.

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.

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

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

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

Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seekers life - in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.

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

True, you have worked hard for many years. But you must aspire until the end. There is no such thing as a pension in the spiritual life.

Friendship must never be buried under the weight of misunderstanding.

Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Our goal is not to have problem free life. But to conquer all the problems as they appear along our life road.

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

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. When realisation takes place, we have to feel the necessity of manifesting this constant delight in our heart. The delight glows, but does not burn. It has tremendous intensity, but it is all softness and absolutely sweet-flowing nectar.

No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others today they will be kind to you and tomorrow to somebody else.

Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.

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

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power there will be peace.

Just one smile immensely increases the beauty of the universe.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

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

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.

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.

Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

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

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

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

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

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

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.

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.

Peace begins When expectation ends.

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

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.

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.

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.

Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.

Only one flag Flies above all the restThe flag of universal oneness.

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.

Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life our soul thinks of Immortality.

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.

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.

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

If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

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

Daring enthusiasm And abiding cheerfulness Can accomplish everything on earth Without fail.