Sri Chinmoy Quotes

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Sri Chinmoy

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : August 27, 1931

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Sri Chinmoy

We can change the world, but not improve it, if we do not have peace.

Sri Chinmoy

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Sri Chinmoy

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Sri Chinmoy

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

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Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

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If you depend on God's grace there is no such thing as impossible.

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I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life.

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Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

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God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

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Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its original sphere and stands beside religion.

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I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

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We accept the world in order to change it. If you do not accept, then what are you going to change?

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The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

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A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

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I am very happy because I have loved the world and not myself.

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Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.

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