Top 473 Quotes & Sayings by Sri Chinmoy - Page 8

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. -

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.

Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

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 cry for God and pray to God can realise God.

Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.

My service to humanity Is my real opportunity To prove my genuine love For God and God alone.

There is no human being on earth who does not have the capacity to offer the message of peace to the world at large. But what is needed now is the soulful willingness.

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

If you are already an awakened soul, Then you must realise That God has already given you A supreme task to perform: He wants you to work For His Vision's world-blossoms.

My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give.

A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely.

Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.

Patience, increasing patience

Character is the colossal hope of human improvement within and without.

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.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

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

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.

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.

Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.

Character is just what we inwardly are and outwardly do.

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.

Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky.

The joy of a self-giving life Can neither be measured Nor be expounded.

If you do not find peace inside your own heart, then you will not find it anywhere else on earth.

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.

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.

To succeed in any field, Our enthusiasm-eyes must sparkle and our enthusiasm-hearts Must dance.

Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.

No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.

O my mind,Make your speech egoless.Then everyoneWill appreciate, admire and adore you.

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 all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

A perfect society is built upon mutual trust. Character is the source of that trust.

Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love

Man can be happy and safe only when the heart feels faster than the mind thinks.

Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.

The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.

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

Love and liveAnd live and loveEach momentTo the fullest.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Some seekers will do anything for their Self-realisation - except work for it.

My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music.

Sacrifice does not mean that, by giving, we lose something. We sacrifice our limited self to our highest and largest Self, and at that time we immediately become the largest and the highest Self.

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

Alas, why does my mind have to walk through the dust of the past every day?

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

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

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

Miracles do happen in every human life.

If we feel secure In the depths of our heart, We shall not challenge anybody, For inner confidence Is nothing short of Complete satisfaction.

Our human nature likes more to destroy than to build, more to cry than to smile, and more to correct the world than to love and embrace the world.