Sri Chinmoy Quotes

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I Am,' or divine spark within the soul.

The final goal of all human endeavor is the development of the human soul.

Your soul is between you and God.

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

Spiritual light rarely comes to those who merely sit in the darkness waiting for someone to flick the switch.

We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.

Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are - infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

All the great teachers have left a similar message: Go within, discover your invisible higher self and know God as the love that is within you.

You are here for no other purpose than to realize your inner divinity and manifest your inner enlightenment.

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses have blossomed within you and you are full of their fragrance.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.