Sri Chinmoy

"I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself."

"Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension."

"If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being."

"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."

"Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you."

"To see the divine in others, we have to love. Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness. This oneness comes from our conscious acceptance of his reality as it is."

"Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world."

"I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature."

"You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love."

"Hate is often an obverse form of love. You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love."

"Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the surface of the sea there may be a multitude of waves but the sea is not affected below. In its deepest depths, the sea is all silence. When we start meditating, first we try to reach our own inner existence, our true existence- that is to say, the bottom of the sea. Then when the waves come from the outside world, we are not affected. Fear, doubt, worry and all the earthly turmoils just wash away, because inside us is solid peace. Thoughts cannot touch us, because our mind is all peace, all silence, all oneness. Like fish in the sea, they jump and swim but leave no mark. When we are in our highest meditation, we feel that we are the sea, and the animals in the sea cannot affect us. We feel that we are the sky, and all the birds flying past cannot affect us. Our mind is the sky and our heart is the infinite sea. This is meditation."

"If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others."

"Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind"

"Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self."

"Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever."

"Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher?Your silence-loving heart."

"Have little,Need less:This is the way To inner peace. Surrender is a journey From the outer turmoil To the inner peace. Peace Is in inner awakening,And this inner awakening We must share With the rest of the world."

"World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power."

"If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music."

"Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above."