Selected poems and quotes by Sri Chinmoy.
World peace can be achieved
When, in each person,
The power of love
Replaces the love of power.
– Sri Chinmoy [1]
Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.
– Sri Chinmoy [2]
If you have inner peace,
nobody can force you to be
a slave to the outer reality.
– Sri Chinmoy [3]
As long as your heart remains
An ever-mounting aspiration-flame,
It makes no difference
What your weaknesses are.
– Sri Chinmoy [4]
I did not come into the world
To prove anything.
I came into the world
To love everyone
And everything.
– Sri Chinmoy [5]
I meditate
So that I can inundate
My entire being
With the omnipotent
Power of peace.
– Sri Chinmoy [6]
May each moment
Of my life
Be the sweetness-fragrance
Of my heart-rose
– Sri Chinmoy
Only by our positive thinking,
By our bringing the positive qualities
Of others to the fore,
Will this world be able
To make progress.
Sri Chinmoy [8]
“Silence is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”
Sri Chinmoy [9]
In the outer life
Simplicity is beautiful.
In the inner life
Simplicity is invincible.
– Sri Chinmoy [10]
The sun shines for everybody.
Some people take advantage
Of it and some people do not.
– Sri Chinmoy [11]
Try not to change the world.
You will fail.
Try to love the world.
Lo, the world is changed.
Changed forever.
Sri Chinmoy [12]
Unhorizoned is our inner peace;
Like the boundless sky,
It encompasses all.
– Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy [13]
Your heart must become
A sea of love.
Your mind must become
A river of detachment.
Sri Chinmoy [14]
Months passed by
and the sage was only praying to God
for Peace, Light and Bliss– Sri Chinmoy
There is only one way
To be successful in life:
Always look
On the bright, brighter, brightest
Side of life.
Sri Chinmoy [15]
Do not allow any thought
To disturb your inner poise.
Sri Chinmoy [16]
I must silence my mind
At every moment
To feel the blessingful Presence
Of my Lord Beloved Supreme.
Sri Chinmoy [17]
Related
- Selected Poems from Ten Thousand Flower Flames
Footnotes
[1] Sri Chinmoy, 1970, Meditations: Food For The Soul, Agni Press [2] Sri Chinmoy, When God-Love Descends, Agni Press, 1975. [3] Sri Chinmoy, Peace, Agni Press, 1995. [4] Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 17, Agni Press, 1981. [5] Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, Part 33, Agni Press, 2005. [6] Sri Chinmoy, I Meditate So That, Agni Press, 1982. [8] Sri Chinmoy,Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 15, Agni Press, 1999. [9] Sri Chinmoy. Philosopher-Thinkers: The Power-Towers Of The Mind And Poet-Seers: The Fragrance-Hours Of The Heart In The West, Agni Press, 1998. [10]Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 133, Agni Press, 1990. [11] [12] Sri Chinmoy, Meditations: Food For The Soul, Agni Press, 1970. [13] Sri Chinmoy, Yoga And The Spiritual Life. The Journey of India’s Soul., Agni Press, 1971. [14] Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 78, Agni Press, 1983. [15] Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 39, Agni Press, 2004. [16] Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 33, Agni Press, 2003. [17] Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 39, Agni Press, 2004.