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Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

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Creativity, Sea, Mind

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Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

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Meditation, Silence, Speak

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Hope is not an idle term. Hope is the reality that can and does reveal itself to us at God's choice hour. To hope is to know the secret of achievement.

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Reality, Choices, Achievement

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Run and become. Become and run. Run to succeed in the outer world. Become to proceed in the inner world.

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Sports, Running, World

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Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

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Heart, Meditation Practice, Giving

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How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.

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Talking, Sea, Silence

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How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away.

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Heart, Hands, Land

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When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

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Meditation, Soul, Mind

Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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Before one accepts spirituality, astrology is very powerful, like a lion. Then when one enters into a deeper spiritual life, astrology becomes a tiny household cat.

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Spiritual, Powerful, Cat

Sri Chinmoy (1973). “Astrology: The Supernatural and the Beyond”, Aum Publications

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We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.

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Hate, Real, Perfection

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You may not know,
But it is absolutely true:
With each heartbeat
Your heart is calling: "God, God!"
You may not hear it,
But God Himself definitely hears
Your heart's cry.

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Heart, Calling, May

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Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

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Heart, Men, Mind

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Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.

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Peace, World, Spontaneous

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War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

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Peace, War, Passion

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

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This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me.

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Peace, Mind, World

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This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.

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Peace, Children, Needs

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.509, Aum Publications

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This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart.

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Peace, Heart, Doubt

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Patience, increasing patience

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Patience

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To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

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Life, Tests, Being True

"Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50" by Sri Chinmoy, (#26570, Part 27), 1998.

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I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.

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Giving Up, World, Do Not Give Up

"Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#233, Part 3), 1983.

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Never give up! Never give up! Physical fitness is of paramount importance. There is no age limit when we live in the heart and when we try to be of prayerful and soulful service to God in the heart of humanity.

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Giving Up, Heart, Humanity

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Love is never afraid of fear. Fear is always afraid of love

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Love Is, Afraid To Love

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A gratitude-heart
Is to discover on earth
A Heaven-delivered rose

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Gratitude, Heart, Rose

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When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.

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Able

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Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today.

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Heart, Body, Today

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.399, Aum Publications

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Died: October 11, 2007
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