When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share
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… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide” — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours,… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share
Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
