Now is the time to make good use of time. Today is the day to begin a perfect day. Sri Chinmoy More Quotes by Sri Chinmoy More Quotes From Sri Chinmoy How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away. Sri Chinmoy land heart hands When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad. Sri Chinmoy good-thoughts men thinking When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence. Sri Chinmoy meditation real mind How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself. Sri Chinmoy silence sea talking Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself. Sri Chinmoy silence meditation years A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a spiritual person has to be divinely practical in his day-to-day activities. Spirituality does not negate the outer life. But we have to know that the outer life does not mean the animal life. The outer life should be the manifestation of the divine life within us. Sri Chinmoy spiritual animal mean Each individual has to know himself. He has to know himself as the infinite, eternal and immortal Consciousness. Sri Chinmoy consciousness infinite awareness The reason I have entered into bodybuilding and weightlifting is to inspire everybody to pray and meditate so they can bring to the fore their own inner strength. If everybody brings to the fore his own inner strength, the world will eventually be inundated with peace. Sri Chinmoy bodybuilding inner-strength inspire True gratitude can never come Sri Chinmoy gratitude sea heart What you do not use yourself, do not give to others. For example, advice. Sri Chinmoy example advice giving Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth. Sri Chinmoy eye meditation heart God's foremost treasure on earth Sri Chinmoy gratitude treasure heart Be in love with your heart-life. Sri Chinmoy flood love-you heart Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God. Sri Chinmoy one-thing vision meditation There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is. Sri Chinmoy my-heart answers heart Precious and spacious Sri Chinmoy heart You may not know, Sri Chinmoy calling heart may Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible. Sri Chinmoy silence meditation expression Beyond speech and mind, Sri Chinmoy light heart doors God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions Sri Chinmoy eye compassion giving