Sri Chinmoy Quotes

We all have our paths in life we are supposed to follow to find who we are supposed to be, but it's not always a straight path. There is something inside of us that guides us, and if you are quiet and listen to it, you'll be all right.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

Self-realization is great.

True navigation begins in the human heart. It's the most important map of all.

I did find my direction at an early age.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Don't follow in my footsteps; follow your heart.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

A sound head, an honest heart, and an humble spirit are the three best guides through time and to eternity.

Self-recognition is necessary to know one's road, but, knowing the road, the price of the mistakes and perils is worth paying. The following of that road will be all the discipline one needs. Discipline does not mean being molded by outside forces, but sticking to one's road against the forces that would deflect or bury the soul. People speak of finding one

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

If your heart, head and gut are telling you the same thing, then you owe it to yourself to chase it.

It's a real luxury to be able to develop with your character.