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

To maintain our inner peace,
We transform our lives into heart-trees.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁴

God has given you
The chance to choose
The outer power
Or the inner peace.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁵

Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁶

Peace won by compromise is a bird that flies away. Peace that comes from the inner awakening is the peace everlasting.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁷

If we can place all the wrong forces that have attacked us cheerfully at the Feet of the Supreme and not find fault with Him, then only will we get peace.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁸

A man of boundless inner peace
Is indeed
A self-discoverer.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁹

A seeker is he who dives deep within in order to bring to the fore the reality that he has within. While bringing it to the fore, he discovers that his aspiration and his realisation are not two different things, but the same thing. He is bringing to the fore his infinite peace from within, and while bringing it forward he discovers, to his utter surprise, that he is peace itself; eternally he is peace. Peace is nothing other than his own inner existence.

– Sri Chinmoy ¹⁸

A genuine seeker after peace must needs be a seeker after love. Love has another name: sacrifice. When sacrifice is pure, love is sure. When love is divine, in sacrifice there can be no “mine,” no “thine.” Love is the secret of oneness.

– Sri Chinmoy ³

Peace is not
The absence of power.
Peace is
The presence of love.

– Sri Chinmoy ²²

If you want to have the inner peace, then you must follow the path of spirituality.

– Sri Chinmoy ³

Peace you want and need. To have peace, you must have free access to your soul. To have free access to your soul, you must have inner silence. To have inner silence, you need aspiration. To have aspiration, you need God’s Grace. To have God’s Grace, you must feel that you are God’s and God’s alone, always!

– Sri Chinmoy ³

God transplanted truth to earth, and He sustains this truth with love. In the combination of the two lies the secret of inner peace.

– Sri Chinmoy ³

photo top: Menaka, Sri Chinmoy Centre galleries

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