Sri Chinmoy Quotes

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.

I meditate.' That's like saying 'I eat.' Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

I sometimes meditate.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noises and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grow in silence. Is not our mission to give God to those we walk with? Not a dead God, but a living, loving God. The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in active life. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Words that don't give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.