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Quotes from Meditations: Food For The Soul — Sri Chinmoy

1931–2007 India

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

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

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)

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

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

The atom has taught me that the little things do count — most.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

Anger has an enemy: Peace. Peace has no enemy. Peace has a special friend: Joy. Anger has only one friend: Destruction.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

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

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

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)

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)

When we try to express the experience of the Infinite Consciousness, our human tongue loses all its power of expression. What shall we do then? We shall have to remain silent. Lo! In no time we shall realise that Silence is infinitely more eloquent and more fruitful than words.

Meditations: Food For The Soul (1970)

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