A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task. Sri Chinmoy More Quotes by Sri Chinmoy More Quotes From Sri Chinmoy Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love Sri Chinmoy afraid-to-love love-is When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously Sri Chinmoy meditation soul mind A single thought has the power of a bullet: either it can destroy you or it can help you immensely. Sri Chinmoy bullets helping When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us. Sri Chinmoy spiritual clever men I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world. Sri Chinmoy inspiration prayer men Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart. Sri Chinmoy guests mind heart We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace. Sri Chinmoy saint heaven believe Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress. Sri Chinmoy perseverance goal giving Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence. Sri Chinmoy silence spiritual morning Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our life truly fruitful if we are not cut off from our Source, which is the peace of Eternity. Sri Chinmoy cutting eternity too-late Inner silence is not just the absence of thoughts. No! Silence is the blossoming of our indomitable inner will. Silence is our inner wisdom-light. Sri Chinmoy blossoming silence light Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, 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 meditation-practice heart giving Individual self-transcendence collectively inspires humanity at large. Sri Chinmoy humanity self inspire We are all God's children. Sri Chinmoy dreamer children world What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence? Sri Chinmoy cry self giving Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth. Sri Chinmoy oneness song men He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example. Sri Chinmoy sri-lanka shining example Silence tells the seeker in us to love, to love himself. It tells us it is wrong to hate ourselves because of our imperfections. When the seeker loves himself, loves the Divine within himself, he eventually realises the Ultimate Truth. Sri Chinmoy hate silence love When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned. Sri Chinmoy oneness spiritual love Your heart will be shattered by sorrow If you force it to live In tomorrow's ephemeral imagination-world Instead of in today's eternal Reality-Now. Sri Chinmoy imagination heart reality
