Sri Chinmoy Quotes

You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.

‎We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.

Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Love is when I smile and breathe deeply down to my toes. I've given myself a gift of caring for myself and learned a new way to look at my issues. And I'm lying in some fresh sheets looking out the window at some visual beauty... a mountain, an ocean, a stream, a forest. A lovely man lying next to me or my babies sleeping.

The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

You are the sky. The clouds are what happens, what comes and goes.

If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.

When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, & wisdom fills your mind.

Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.

Don't Worry, Be Hapi.

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.

As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.

Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.

The goal of the spiritual activist is to find inner peace even in externally chaotic circumstances.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind.

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

Comfort will never come to one who does not touch the stillness within himself.