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When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

Sri Chinmoy

Yoga, Heart, Meditation

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I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.

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Two, Perfect, Inspire

"Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 23)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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Of all the medicines
In the inner life,
A smile is by far
The best medecine.

Sri Chinmoy

Smile, Medicine, Inner Life

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If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.

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Heart, Vision, Trying

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Just becauseWe cannot see,We are not entitled to doubt.

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Doubt, Entitled

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Arise, awake! This path is arduous. So we learn from the wise, and we have to follow in the footsteps of the wise. The path of spirituality is not a bed of roses. But neither is it a chimerical mist. The Golden Shores of the Beyond are not a mere promise. The crown of human aspiration is bound to be fulfilled on the Golden Shores of the Beyond.

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Wise, Bed Of Roses, Promise

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.74, Aum Publications

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A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.

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Simple, Men, Differences

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I took a closer look. There is no such thing as ignorance. Ignorance is nothing But my limited knowledge. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as defeat. Defeat is nothing But the inspirer Of my increasing will. I took a closer look. There is no such thing as death. Death is nothing But my strengthening And Dreaming rest.

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Death, Dream, Ignorance

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If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we live in the mind, we will only try to separate one religion from another and see how their ideologies differ. It is the heart that can have a true intuitive understanding of the height and breadth of all religions. It is the heart that sees and feels the inner harmony and oneness of all religions.

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Heart, Essence, Oneness

Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.297, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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lf you ever dare to fight against hatred, then there is but one weapon: Love.

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Fighting, Hatred, Weapons

"Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays".

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I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is far beyond even my imagination's flight. For me to long to grow into that Height - is this not a miracle? I am mortal. My thoughts, my deeds, my experiences - everything that I have and everything that I am - represent mortality. Yet despite everything that I have and everything that I am, I am longing for Immortality. Is this not a miracle?

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Feet, Imagination, Long

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Hope abides; therefore I abide. Countless frustrations have not cowed me. I am still alive, vibrant with life. The black cloud will disappear, The morning sun will appear once again In all its supernal glory.

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Morning, Frustration, Clouds

Sri Chinmoy Ghose, “Hope Abides”

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No religion is absolutely perfect. Yet not only do we fight for religion, but also are we often willing to sacrifice our lives for it. And what we hopelessly fail to do is to live it. A true religion is that which has no caste, no creed, no colour. It is but an all-uniting and all-pervading embrace.

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Fighting, Sacrifice, Perfect

"Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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A human being has many divine qualities. But there has never been another unparalleled divine quality like man's self-sacrifice, nor can there ever be.

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Sacrifice, Men, Self

"Songs of the Soul". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.

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Meditation, Vision, One Thing

Sri Chinmoy (1989). “Eastern light for the western mind: university talks”

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One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

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Mind, Fool, Faults

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Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.

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Sports

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Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity.

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Country, Philosophy, Inspiration

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You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

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Beautiful, Flower, Two

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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I take exercise for each part of the body: arms, legs, back and whatever muscles are required to keep the body fit. I do at least 20 different exercises daily for my upper and lower body. Then I come here every morning to do calf raises and play tennis. If there is time in the afternoon, I play tennis again. At least three hours I spend on weightlifting and bodybuilding.

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Morning, Exercise, Bodybuilding

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God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

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Eye, Compassion, Giving

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To hope is to send darkest night into exile.

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Night, Hopeful, Exile

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Doubt is an old disease.
Faith is an old medicine.
Compassion is an old doctor.
Concern is an old nurse.

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Compassion, Doctors, Medicine

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.

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Heart, Sky, Bird

Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.102, Aum Publications

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When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

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Sacrifice, Animal, Men

Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.175, Aum Publications

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Died: October 11, 2007
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