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Portrait of Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy

504 quotes in 1474 categories

Inner peace, Sri Chinmoy says, can spark world peace in an instant. He encourages seeing each problem as a friendly helper rather than a foe, and describes love as a state we become, not just a feeling. He also reminds us that death is a road, not a final stop.

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Sri Chinmoy, born Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964 and built a global community of thousands of students.

Quick Facts About Sri Chinmoy

Notable works: Meditation

About Sri Chinmoy

He was also an author, poet, artist and musician who organized concerts and meditation gatherings focused on inner peace. He promoted a spiritual path to God through prayer and meditation and encouraged athleticism, including distance running, swimming and weightlifting, organizing marathons and races. After a knee injury he shifted to weightlifting. Some former members later accused him of running a cult.

Quotes by Sri Chinmoy

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

Charm

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Miracles do happen in every human life.

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To hope is to send darkest night into exile.

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Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

Hope

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“Wait for tomorrow To think tomorrow's thoughts.”

Here and now

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Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Dictionary

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To conquer the egoIs to gainBoundless freedom.

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Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.

Football

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The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

Beauty

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God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

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I did not come into the world to prove anything. I came into the world to love everyone and everything.

Love

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

Adversity

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The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power.

Inspirational

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Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality.

Death

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If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?

Beauty

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

Expectations

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Hope is at once both simple and profound. It is hope that binds Heaven and earth. Hope is the bridge between Heaven…

Bridges

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Silence is not silent. Silence speaks. It speaks most eloquently. Silence is not still. Silence leads. It leads most perfectly.

Inspiring yoga

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Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an…

Optimism

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There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world…

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Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend…

Challenges

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

Abyss

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You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To…

Bondage

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Never give up! Never give up! Physical fitness is of paramount importance. There is no age limit when we live in the…

Age

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Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this…

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The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world…

Change

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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…

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Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of…

Divine

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When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them…

Bird

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If you have true gratitude, it will express itself automatically. It will be visible in your eyes, around your being, in your…

Auras

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If you find it difficult to love the human in someone, then love the divine in him or her. The divine in…

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What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the…

Consciousness

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Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and…

Dawn

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“Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you have to find…

Goals

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Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation…

Absolutes

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The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute…

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How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer…

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“There are two ways to illumine anger. One way is to enlarge your heart. If you have been wronged, use your power…

Anger

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“Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the surface of the sea…

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When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach…

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Sri Chinmoy by topic

Life (99) Love (81) Heart (81) World (77) Peace (71) Inspirational (59) Meditation (56) Mind (53) Psychology (47) Humans (31) Spirituality (29) Soul (28) Joy (28) God (28) Giving (28) Divine (28) Self (27)