Quotes on the heart

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Spiritual Heart

“Ours is the path of the heart. I tell my disciples that they have to empty their hearts totally so that Peace, Light and Bliss can descend from above and fill their inner vessel.”

Sri Chinmoy, 1

“You have to feel that there is something called the spiritual heart, which is inside the physical heart. Then you have to feel that inside the spiritual heart there is something called the soul. First open the heart-door. Once you are inside the heart, feel that you are trying to unlock another door. That is the door of the soul.”

Sri Chinmoy, 2

“Within the heart the soul abides. The soul permeates the whole body, but it abides in the heart, just as a man lives in a house, but stays most of the time in one certain room. One can feel the spiritual heart when one is aspiring intensely and one can also see it with the third eye. Every day each aspirant should concentrate on the heart and nowhere else. He has to feel that he does not have a head, he does not have legs, he does not have arms; he has only the heart. An aspirant can reach his spiritual heart through constant concentration and meditation.”

Sri Chinmoy, 3

Question: How can I go deep within? Sri Chinmoy: You have to feel that there is something called the spiritual heart, which is inside the physical heart. Then you have to feel that inside the spiritual heart there is something called the soul. First open the heart-door. Once you are inside the heart, feel that you are trying to unlock another door. That is the door of the soul.

Sri Chinmoy, 4

“The spiritual heart is vaster than the vastest. Right now Infinity is an imaginary concept for us. But when we discover our spiritual heart, Infinity is no longer imagination; it is reality.”

Sri Chinmoy, 5

“You cannot look physically at your spiritual heart, but you can focus all your attention on it. Then gradually, the power of your concentration enters into the heart and takes you completely out of the realm of the mind”

Sri Chinmoy, 6

“The heart has
Many special qualities.
Two are uppermost:
It knows how to care;
It knows how to share.”

Sri Chinmoy, 7

“Your mind has
A flood of questions.
There is but one teacher
Who can answer them.
Who is the teacher?
Your silence-loving heart.”

Sri Chinmoy, 8

“Your mind knows only
How to compile complaints.
Your heart knows only
How to sing oneness-song.”

Sri Chinmoy, 9

“The mind knows
How to dominate.
The heart knows
How to liberate.”

Sri Chinmoy, 10

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Quotes – Who am I?

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Only in my deep meditation
Do I come to know
Who I truly am.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 37, Agni Press, 2004

Who am I?
I am
An eternal seeker.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 45, Agni Press, 2006

There is only one question:
Who am I?

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 49, Agni Press, 2008

Alas,
I fool myself miserably
By thinking that I know
Who I truly am.

Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 12, Agni Press, 2002

My mind
Does not know
Who I am.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 26, Agni Press, 2002

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Quotes on self-giving

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Because of self-giving friendship this world of ours is exceedingly beautiful.

Sri Chinmoy, 1

Self-giving
Is
Its own reward.

Sri Chinmoy, 2

What we have is love and what we are is oneness. By offering love in any form to mankind – to our so-called superiors and so-called inferiors, or to our brothers and sisters of the world – we come to know what we ultimately and eternally are: oneness inseparable.

Sri Chinmoy, 3

We can have more joy only in self-giving, not in demanding.

Sri Chinmoy, 4

The more we give to humanity, the sooner we grow into our larger than the largest heart.

Sri Chinmoy, 5

There is a great difference between charity and self-offering in the spiritual life. In self-offering, we try to give what we have, unconditionally. When we give something in charity, we feel that the world will come to know and will appreciate and admire us.

Sri Chinmoy, 6

Constant self-offering
Is the easiest way
To peace.

Sri Chinmoy, 7

Total self-giving is found in the spiritual life when you have the capacity to identify yourself with something infinite. It is like giving your entire being-body, mind, heart and soul. What you have and what you are, you are giving to a divine cause.

Sri Chinmoy, 8

A self-giving heart
Is
Beauty unparalleled.

Sri Chinmoy, 9

Sleepless self-giving
Knows no equal.

Sri Chinmoy, 10

Quotes on hope

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“Hope is not mere wishful thinking. It is the precursor of a new dawn that slowly, steadily and unerringly comes to the fore and eventually grows into reality’s existence.”

Sri Chinmoy,  1

“A smile gives us
A new hope.”

Sri Chinmoy, 2

“Yesterday’s failures
Must be forgotten.
Tomorrow’s new hope
And new fulfilment
Must be cherished.:

Sri Chinmoy, 3

“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.”

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Quotes on intuition

Do not think too long!
Can you not see
You are starving your intuition?

– Sri Chinmoy 1

Intuition is the creation above the mind. Intuition is the freedom beyond the mind. Intuition is the evolution of consciousness-light outside the boundaries of the physical mind.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

We lose the power of intuition
The moment we feed
The reasoning mind.

Sri Chinmoy, 3

Intuition does not expose. Intuition does not impose. Intuition only brings forward the hidden reality. It brings to the fore the message of cosmic harmony.

– Sri Chinmoy 4

Intuition is not merely to see the Truth faster than the fastest. Intuition is to throw ourselves into the love-light and oneness-light of self-discovery and God-discovery

– Sri Chinmoy 4

From intellect to intuition
Is indeed a long journey.
From intuition to perfection
Is infinitely longer.

Sri Chinmoy, 6

Mysticism has a language of its own. Its name is Intuition. A mystic sits on the wings of the Intuition-Bird and flies towards the Ultimate Real. Intuition means immediate revelation. Intuition reveals the perfect oneness of the Transcendental Vision and the Reality Absolute.

– Sri Chinmoy 7

You do not have to imitate
Others’ successes.
You do not have to learn
From others’ mistakes.
Just follow your intuition.
Your intuition embodies
The beauty of success
And
The purity of progress.

– Sri Chinmoy 8

Intuitive knowledge and natural intelligence are two totally different things. Intuitive knowledge comes on the strength of past inner experiences. It is different from intuitive flashes. To get intuitive knowledge, one has to enter into the realm of intuition and stay there. One has to have free access to the world of intuition.

– Sri Chinmoy 9

Bury all your mental education
If necessity demands,
But never bury the beauty,
Purity and divinity
Of your intuition-flames.

– Sri Chinmoy 10

As your mind’s intellectual life
Has narrowed your vision,
Even so your soul’s intuitive light
Has widened your heart.

– Sri Chinmoy 11

Yes, there is a connection, but the third eye is infinitely superior to intuition. The third eye is like the sun and intuition is like a few flames. With intuition we can get an immediate answer to a question. With the third eye one can look forward and backward, one can see past, present and future. All is at its disposal. The third eye has the power to transform the past through its adamantine will power. Intuition does not have this power, but the two are good friends.

– Sri Chinmoy 12

Quotes about the spiritual life

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“You do not have to
Give up anything.
Just value your spiritual life
And automatically you will feel
That this new life of yours
Comes first.”

– Sri Chinmoy 1

“Once you enter into the spiritual life,
Be careful!
You are not entitled
To while away your time.”

– Sri Chinmoy 2

“It is a mistaken idea that the spiritual life is a life of austerity and a bed of thorns. No, never! We came from the Blissful. To the Blissful we shall return with the spontaneous joy of life. It seems difficult because we cater to our ego. It looks unnatural because we cherish our doubts.”

– Sri Chinmoy 3

“Life is a long road.
Along the road at every moment
We must remain cheerful and
Self-offering.”

– Sri Chinmoy 4

“Spirituality can and should be practised irrespective of place and time. Anybody on earth can practise spiritual life. Spiritual life can never be an artificial life. Spiritual life is something which is natural and spontaneous.”

– Sri Chinmoy 5

“Acceptance, the acceptance of life with a divine attitude, is not only a lofty idea, but the very ideal of life.”

– Sri Chinmoy 6

“Acceptance of the life divine is the transcendence of human ego. The transcendence of ego is man’s real dignity and true worth.”

– Sri Chinmoy 6

“Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.”

– Sri Chinmoy 8

“Do not blame the circumstances!
You must rise far above
The domain of circumstances.”

– Sri Chinmoy 9

“No matter where you are,
You do have the hidden capacity
To climb higher and dive deeper,
Even if it is just an inch.”

– Sri Chinmoy 10

“Since life is but a continuous
Series of experiences,
Everything ultimately helps me
Towards my final enlightenment.”

– Sri Chinmoy 11

“A spiritually established life
Is not an easy task,
But
A materially satisfied life
Is an impossible task.”

– Sri Chinmoy 12

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Quotes about finding inner peace

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If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

– Sri Chinmoy 1

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace. If our mind has all the questions, then our heart has all the answers.

– Sri Chinmoy 3

How can I have peace?
Not by talking about peace,
But by walking
Along the road of peace.

– Sri Chinmoy 4

We own peace only after we have totally stopped finding fault with others. We have to feel the whole world as our very own.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

My inner peace
Does not select anybody,
Does not reject anybody.
My inner peace
Always self-givingly projects itself.

– Sri Chinmoy 6

For peace of mind, prayer is essential. To pray to God for peace with full concentration and singleness of devotion even for five minutes is more important than to spend long hours in carefree and easy-going meditation.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

O my mind,
Do you really want peace?
Then shun competition-comparison,
World-criticism and self-criticism.

– Sri Chinmoy 8

We must resolve here and now, amidst all our daily activities, to throw ourselves, heart and soul, into the Sea of Peace.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

Unless we break down
Our barriers of suspicion and mistrust,
A mind of peace will always remain
A far cry for us.

– Sri Chinmoy 10

We must not allow our past to torment and destroy the peace of our heart. Our present good and divine actions can easily counteract our bad and undivine actions of the past.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

The inner peace
Must always be
Earned and achieved.

– Sri Chinmoy 12

Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.

– Sri Chinmoy 13

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Quotes on religion

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“No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.”

– Sri Chinmoy 1

“Love of God is the essence of all religions.”

– Sri Chinmoy 2

“Yes, I believe in one God, one Source. Love of God is like a tree — the life-tree — and it has many branches. Each of the branches has its own identity and its own name, such as Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam and so forth. But they are still branches of the same tree.”

– Sri Chinmoy 2

“The true religion
Is nothing short of
God-union.”

– Sri Chinmoy 4

“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. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.”

– Sri Chinmoy 5

“The name of my religion
Is
Neither supremacy-peak
Nor argument-volcano.”

– Sri Chinmoy 6

“I feel very sad when religious sects quarrel and fight in the Name of God. If they really love God, they will not kill others in His Name. Love means oneness. If we have oneness, how can we fight? We fight only because we do not feel love for others, because we have not yet transformed our ignorance into oneness-reality.”

– Sri Chinmoy 7

“When the religion-bird
Flies in the spirituality-sky,
It far transcends religion-limitations.”

– Sri Chinmoy 8

“I also believe that all religions are ways to provide us with the experience of God, completely independent of the historical context of their messages. True, each religious teacher or prophet comes with a special message that suits the people of his time. But humanity’s ignorance and lack of receptivity are such that whenever a prophet comes, he always seems to have come ahead of his time.”

– Sri Chinmoy 2

“The modern path
Is to debate voraciously
About religion and scripture.
What a stupid path!”

– Sri Chinmoy 10

“The “love of God” religion
Does not claim
Man-made religions.”

– Sri Chinmoy 11

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Quotes about the power of thought

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Heaven and hell are inside our mind. They are a state of consciousness, not a country to which one goes. If you cherish a good thought, then inside that good thought is Heaven. If you treasure a bad thought, you live in hell. Heaven and hell are inside us; at every moment we experience either Heaven or hell.

– Sri Chinmoy 1

Instead of bringing opportunity
To your doorstep,
You are chasing opportunity away
With your stupid, self-undermining
And self-criticising mind.

– Sri Chinmoy 2

Just be positive
In everything that you say and do.
Your mind will escape the poison
Of self-created negativity.

– Sri Chinmoy 3

In your case also, you have to pray and meditate and become one with the Highest. It is the only way. Otherwise, if you say, “I am useless, I am hopeless,” then you will always remain useless and hopeless.

– Sri Chinmoy 4

One good thought
Energises us
Unimaginably.

– Sri Chinmoy 5

Do not think too long!
Can you not see
You are starving your intuition?

– Sri Chinmoy 6

You should not feel that you are an ant. If you feel like an ant, then you will always remain an ant. When you have a little ‘I’, you have to try to expand it. You have to make it as large as possible, make it the universal ‘I.’

– Sri Chinmoy 4

The promise-power
Of a positive thought
Cannot be measured.

– Sri Chinmoy 8

One bad thought, a lower vital thought, is enough to destroy a whole day. You have to know whether you have allowed it to enter your mind or gone further and actually cherished it. And again, one divine thought is enough to keep the whole day cheerful.

– Sri Chinmoy 9

Undivine thoughts
Imprison
Our mind.

Divine thoughts
Liberate
Our mind.

– Sri Chinmoy 10

The outer world is ruled
By the power
Of human thought.

The inner world is guided
By the Love
Of Divine Will.

– Sri Chinmoy 11

A human being is at the mercy of a tiny thought. You have two arms, two legs and so many things at your disposal. But if one tiny thought comes — anger, let us say, or insecurity — then you are finished. One little thought can weaken you to such an extent.

– Sri Chinmoy 12

But much stronger than thought-power is something called will-power. Will-power has tremendous strength, dauntless power, inexhaustible power. So don’t follow thought-power; follow always will-power. An atom of will-power can illumine and fulfil your life.

– Sri Chinmoy 12

Each thought
Embodies a world
Of possibilities.

– Sri Chinmoy 14

Each thought has power of its own. Positive thought has a power and negative thought also has a power. With positive power we build; with negative power we break. Each positive thought is creation and each negative thought is destruction.

– Sri Chinmoy 15

Each good thought radiates.
Each wrong thought vindicates.

– Sri Chinmoy 16

In the spiritual life, when a negative thought enters into us, we take it to the soul’s light for transformation. Without the soul’s light these negative thoughts cannot be transformed. First we have to chase them, then catch them and then take them to the proper place where they can be transformed. This is how we can conquer and transform negative thoughts.

– Sri Chinmoy 15

Thinking is becoming.
Therefore, be extremely careful
In your thinking.

– Sri Chinmoy 18

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Quotes on meditation

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Benefits of meditation

“We meditate for various reasons. Peace of mind we all badly need. Therefore, when we meditate, either consciously or unconsciously we aim at peace of mind. Meditation give us peace of mind without a tranquilliser. And unlike a tranquilliser, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.”

– Sri Chinmoy 1

“When we meditate, we make our mind calm, quiet, vacant and tranquil, and we receive Light from above in infinite measure.”

Sri Chinmoy, 2

“Through meditation the soul becomes fully aware of its evolution in its eternal journey.”

Sri Chinmoy, 3

“Meditation alone can give birth to perfection. Meditation carries us beyond the frustration of the senses, beyond the limitation of the reasoning mind. And, finally, meditation can present us with the breath of perfection.”

– Sri Chinmoy 4

“If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.”

– Sri Chinmoy 5

What is meditation?

“Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction. Transformation of life is the culmination of divine satisfaction.”

– Sri Chinmoy 6

In meditation we have to go far beyond the domain of the mind, because the mental faculty is very limited.

Sri Chinmoy, 7

“Meditation is man’s thirst for the Infinite Real, Eternal Real and Absolute Real. The secret of meditation is to achieve conscious and constant oneness with God.”

– Sri Chinmoy 4

“We can easily know whether we are meditating well or not just by the way we feel and see and think. Right after our meditation, if we have a good feeling for the world, then we know our meditation was good. If we see the world in a loving way in spite of its imperfections, if we can love the world even while seeing its teeming imperfections, then we know that our meditation was good.”

Sri Chinmoy 9

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