"Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day."
Sri Chinmoy
Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Sri Chinmoy was a spiritual leader and author known for his teachings on peace, meditation, and inner strength, emphasizing the importance of self-discovery.
- Born
- August 27, 1931
- Died
- October 11, 2007
- Quotes
- 453
- Rank
- #270
Quote collection
Sri Chinmoy quotes (page 10 of 23)
453 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility."
"Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's own true self. It is through meditation that we transcend limitation, bondage and imperfection."
"Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness."
"He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example."
"If we can invoke Peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how Peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large."
"If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated."
"I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature."
"When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart."
"Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile."
"The way to become happy Is to think And to feel That the very best is yet to come."
"There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you."
"Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again In all its supernal glory."
"Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt."
"A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be."
"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."
"What is realisation? Realisation is my conscious and constant sailing with my Inner Pilot in His Golden Boat towards the uncharted land, where sooner than at once beauty, divinity and Immortality seeds grow into the richest harvest."
"To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life."
"Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible."
"Our goal is to go from bright to brighter to brightest, from high to higher to highest. And even in the highest, there is no end to our progress, for God Himself is inside each of us and God at every moment is transcending His own Reality."