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In the spiritual life the easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then utter it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility.

Sri Chinmoy

Beautiful, Spiritual, Gratitude

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What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

Sri Chinmoy

Love, Bird, Joy

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

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How can one know who his spiritual teacher is?...His heart looks at the spiritual Masters and makes the choice. When the heart sees a spiritual Master, if it is overwhelmed with joy, then there is every probability that that spiritual Master is the right one for the seeker.

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Spiritual, Teacher, Heart

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.217, Aum Publications

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Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude.

Sri Chinmoy

Mother, Gratitude, Father

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Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.

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Teacher, Heart, Silence

Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.48, Aum Publications

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The most important and most significant good quality in our human life is gratitude. Unfortunately, that good quality we somehow manage not to express either in our thoughts or in our actions. Right from the beginning of our life, we have somehow learned not to express it. So we have the least amount of the very thing that we need most in order to become a better person.

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Gratitude, Order, Important

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You must never forget that greatness does not guarantee happiness but goodness always does

Sri Chinmoy

Greatness, Doe, Guarantees

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Love is hope. Hope is nectar.

Sri Chinmoy

Love Is, Nectar

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God's foremost treasure on earth
Is my ever-blossoming
Gratitude-heart.

Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude, Heart, Treasure

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To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

Sri Chinmoy

May, Causes, Individual

"Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#14805, Part 37), 1983.

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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. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.

Sri Chinmoy

Sea, Soul, Mind

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

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No price is too great to pay for inner peace.

Sri Chinmoy

Inner Peace, Pay

Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.208, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

Sri Chinmoy

Atoms, Littles, Taught

"Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 5)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

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Children, Sri Lanka, Child Of God

Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.398, Aum Publications

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The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don't like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way. But once you know what your best meditation is, please stick to it.

Sri Chinmoy

Suits You, Giving, Meditation

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Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Sri Chinmoy

Ignorance, Knowledge, Trying

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There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodies is the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals from within is his Beloved.

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Self, Soul, Lovers

Sri Chinmoy (1974). “Kundalini: The Mother-power”, p.37, Aum Publications

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Be in love with your heart-life.
There, only there,
Is the flood of happiness.

Sri Chinmoy

Love You, Heart, Flood

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A sincere seeker knows what his goal is: the highest Truth. He will not delay his journey. In spiritual life, we aspire for the highest Truth, for God, nothing else.

Sri Chinmoy

Spiritual, Journey, Goal

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If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

Sri Chinmoy

Love, Life, Humanity

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you.

Sri Chinmoy

Gratitude, Heart, Roots

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When we transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We do not compete with the rest of the world, but at every moment we compete with ourselves.

Sri Chinmoy

World, Moments

Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1169, Aum Publications

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Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality.

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation, Important, Infinity

Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.265, Aum Publications

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When you really have something to offer to the world, then you can become truly humble. A tree when it has no fruit to offer, remains erect. But when the tree is laden with fruit, it bends down. If you are all pride and ego, then nobody will be able to get anything worthwhile from you. When you have genuine humility, it is a sign that you have something to offer to mankind.

Sri Chinmoy

Humility, Humble, Pride

Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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Ignorance is an enemy, even to its owner.
Knowledge is a friend, even to its hater.
Ignorance hates knowledge because it is too pure.
Knowledge fears ignorance because it is too sure.

Sri Chinmoy

Hate, Ignorance, Enemy

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Died: October 11, 2007
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