Sri Chinmoy Quotes

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.

I think for me, happiness is crucial, but I think we think that happiness comes from amassing goods and getting things and being loved and being successful, when in fact my experience of happiness comes when you give everything away, when you serve people, when you're watching something you do make somebody happy - that's when happiness happens.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The most cherished and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love.

If you're doing what you do because you love it, you have room to be happy for others. And that's a lot of fun, when you get down to it.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

Life's too short. Don't be afraid to love and then keep loving and keep loving and doing more loving.

If you don't embrace the bad, you can never truly embrace the good and be grateful and have gratitude for the tiniest things.

I'm a hugger and a lover and a dancer!

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.

In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.

If you are not radiant with joy and friendliness, if you are not filled to overflowing with love and goodwill for all beings and all creatures and all creation, one thing is certain: you do not know God!

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.