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Within Quotes by Sri Chinmoy
- Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We…
- Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human…
- Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When…
- There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which…
- A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a…
- How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally…
- When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Real meditation we get from within or from a spiritual Master. We can never get it from books. From books we can get inspiration or…
- When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able to bring to…
- 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…
- 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…
- This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of…
- Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything…
- 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,…
- Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We…
- Cry within. Meditate within. Dive within. Your inner achievements will far outweigh your outer imperfections.
- Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who…
- Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.
- Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of…
- You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is…
- No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a…
- Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the…
- Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant country where there are trees…
More Within Quotes
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity. — Arthur Ashe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- There is good and mediocre writing within every genre. — Margaret Atwood
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks. — John James Audubon
- Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine
- By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. — Saint Augustine
- I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. — Saint Augustine
- Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. — Marcus Aurelius