Sri Chinmoy Quotes

1931–2007 India

Sri Chinmoy (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007) was a spiritual teacher, poet, humanitarian, musician and athlete. Born in Bengal, India, at age of 11 he moved to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram before moving to New York, in 1964.

India
Non-fiction authors

Also known as: Chinmoy

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

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

No mind, no form, I only exist; now ceased all will and thought; the final end of [Nature]]'s dance, I am it whom I have sought.

My Flute (1972)

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.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

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.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

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.

My Flute (1972)

What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

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

Words of Wisdom (2010)

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

It is an act of folly on our part to expect the same truth, the same knowledge and the same power from both science and spirituality.

Songs of the Soul (1971)

No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

Words of Wisdom (2010)

Barren of events, rich in pretensions my earthly life. Obscurity my real name. Wholly unto myself I exist. I wrap no soul in my embrace. No mentor worthy of my calibre have I. I am all alone between failure and frustration. I am the red thread between nothingness and Eternity.

My Flute (1972)

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)

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.

Songs of the Soul (1971)

Death is not the end. Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The soul is the guide.

My Rose Petals (1971)

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

Words of Wisdom (2010)

Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

The very acceptance of the spiritual life demands enormous courage. This courage is not the courage of a haughty, rough person who will strike others to assert his superiority; it is totally different.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

A true spiritual seeker will have the deepest respect and utmost reverence for all religions. We can treasure all religions and claim them as our very own.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sri Chinmoy (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.