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Sri Chinmoy on Valentine's Day

1931–2007 India

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19 quotes

When the power of love replaces the love of power, man will have a new name: God.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

The Wings of Joy (1997)

World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.

Words of Wisdom (2010)

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

Ten Thousand Flower Flames Part 1-100 (1979)

Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love.

Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974)

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

When we repeat the name of God, if love comes to the fore, then our prayer, our concentration, our meditation, our contemplation are genuine.

Service-Boat And Love-Boatman (1974)

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

My Rose Petals (1971)

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants Part 1-270 (1983)

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

Words of Wisdom (2010)

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore (1974)

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)

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)

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)

Attribution

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