Sri Chinmoy quote: "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."

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mi...
SRI CHINMOY

Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. Y...
SRI CHINMOY

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again...
SRI CHINMOY

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the belov...
SRI CHINMOY

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents...
SRI CHINMOY

If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.
SRI CHINMOY

Listen to the inner light; it will guide you. Listen to inner peace; it will feed you. Listen to inn...
SRI CHINMOY

Remain cheerful,
For nothing destructive can pierce through
The solid wall of cheerfulness...
SRI CHINMOY

Heaven and God are not high above us, far away; they are deep within us. Heaven is not a distant cou...
SRI CHINMOY

When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart...
SRI CHINMOY

I am very happy
Because I have conquered myself
And not the world.
I am very happy SRI CHINMOY

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the b...
SRI CHINMOY

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.
SRI CHINMOY

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, a...
SRI CHINMOY

Whether you accept or reject it, God's Love for you is permanent.
SRI CHINMOY

Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with ...
SRI CHINMOY

In the mind, we doubt and suspect, and we get a kind of pleasure, a kind of joy from that. But in th...
SRI CHINMOY

Belief comes spontaneously as well as by effort. Belief is power. An insincere and uninspired seeker...
SRI CHINMOY

Impossibility is a dictionary word.
SRI CHINMOY

If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into be...
SRI CHINMOY

Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.

Surrender is a jou...
SRI CHINMOY

All around us is the cosmic game, the cosmic play. The universe is full of joy, inner and outer. Whe...
SRI CHINMOY

To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he th...
SRI CHINMOY

Peace begins
When expectation ends.
SRI CHINMOY

The language of the heart
Is the only language
That everybody can understand.
SRI CHINMOY

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the ...
SRI CHINMOY

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you ...
SRI CHINMOY

Be kind, be all sympathy,
For each and every human being
Is forced to fight against himsel...
SRI CHINMOY

The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY

I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY

Mysticism, poor mysticism! When it is underestimated and oversimplified, it comes down from its orig...
SRI CHINMOY

Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life's mistakes
Are initial drafts
And ...
SRI CHINMOY

No matter how fleeting
Your smile is,
Your smile is the very beginning
Of your wisdo...
SRI CHINMOY

Look at your heart-flower and smile.
You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.
SRI CHINMOY

I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to...
SRI CHINMOY

Hope is sweet.
Hope is illumining.
Hope is fulfilling.
Hope can be everlasting.
...
SRI CHINMOY

Just one smile
Immensely increases the beauty
Of the universe.
SRI CHINMOY

I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
...
SRI CHINMOY

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free a...
SRI CHINMOY

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.
SRI CHINMOY

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?
SRI CHINMOY

Ours is a divine journey; therefore, this journey has neither a beginning nor an end... This journey...
SRI CHINMOY

Do you want to change the world?
Then change yourself first.
Do you want to change yoursel...
SRI CHINMOY

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any othe...
SRI CHINMOY

In between your failure-tree
And your triumph-tree,
The tree that is growing
Is known...
SRI CHINMOY

To make the fastest progress,
Be an absolutely cheerful
Hero-warrior
And take both vi...
SRI CHINMOY

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength...
SRI CHINMOY

True gratitude can never come
From the mind.
It has to flow from the heart
To the min...
SRI CHINMOY

Peace is eternal. It is never too late to have peace. Time is always ripe for that. We can make our ...
SRI CHINMOY

Right now fear, doubt, anxiety, tension and disharmony are reigning supreme.
But there shall co...
SRI CHINMOY

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with y...
SRI SRI RAVISHANKAR

Dedication in Meditation becomes Medication
SRI SRI SRI GURU VISWA SPHOORTHI

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thr...
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his o...
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to id...
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, s...
SRI AUROBINDO

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA

The theme of satsangh: that there is Salvation in numbers.
SRI RANGASRI

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, ...
SRI MADHAVA

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap wil...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA

When became citizens, we took an oath to support and defend the Constitution and laws and bear faith...
SRI SRINIVASAN

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and c...
SRI AUROBINDO

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
SRI AUROBINDO

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, ...
SRI MADHAVA

God had created the world in play.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.
SRI AUROBINDO

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profo...
SRI AUROBINDO

Our tasks are given, we are but instruments. Nothing is all our own that we create.
SRI AUROBINDO

All is possible if God Touch is There.
SRI AUROBINDO

To become God in Life is Man's only Manhood.
SRI AUROBINDO

Some day surely the world too shall be saved from death by Love.
SRI AUROBINDO

The real difficulty is always in ourselves, not in our surroundings.
SRI AUROBINDO

Heaven's call is rare, rarer the heart that heeds.
SRI AUROBINDO

Happiest who stand on faith as on a rock.
SRI AUROBINDO

His failure is not failure whom God leads.
SRI AUROBINDO

"Some day surely the world too shall be saved from death by Love." - Sri Aurobindo.
SRI AUROBINDO

We conclude that both challenged aspects of EPA's regulations implementing the 2008 ozone standa...
SRI SRINIVASAN

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very...
SRI AUROBINDO

It is an ego in man, that is shocked to find ego in others.
SRI AUROBINDO

The Divine makes our fall a means for greater rise.
SRI AUROBINDO

All Life is Yoga.
SRI AUROBINDO

Escape however high, redeems not life.
SRI AUROBINDO

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA

Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to i...
SRI AUROBINDO

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges o...
SRI AUROBINDO

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still som...
SRI AUROBINDO

Hidden nature is secret God.
SRI AUROBINDO

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man....
SRI AUROBINDO

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profo...
SRI AUROBINDO

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hop...
SRI AUROBINDO

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affiniti...
SRI AUROBINDO

All can be done if the god-touch is there
SRI AUROBINDO

In India we get a lot of wickets with reverse swing, we stuck to one plan and thankfully it worked.
SRI SREESANTH

India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still som...
SRI AUROBINO

Individuals with significant care needs increasingly receive services in their homes rather than in ...
SRI SRINIVASAN

As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth,...
SRI AUROBINDO

It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of ...
SRI AUROBINDO

It was an interesting experience to work alongside the solicitor general's team and then turn ar...
SRI SRINIVASAN

The Office of the Solicitor General has a deeply ingrained fundamental institutional culture that ha...
SRI SRINIVASAN

Consumer pressure for complete connectivity is escalating daily, with their demand to use any device...
SRI KANNANKOTE

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is o...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

New leaders must also expect and manage setbacks. In post-revolutionary times, expectations are high...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

When we rebuild a house, we are rebuilding a home. When we recover from disaster, we are rebuilding ...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Try to treat with equal love all the people with whom you have relations. Thus the abyss between 'my...
SRI ANANDAMAYI MA

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. B...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regre...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protr...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the u...
SRI SARADA DEVI

Acquire a firm will and the utmost patience.
SRI ANANDAMAYI MA

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whol...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separa...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to se...
SRI SARADA DEVI

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great l...
SRI ANANDAMAYI MA

Many developing countries are enjoying demographic changes. They have a younger demographic composit...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Like many countries, Indonesia can transform its decision-making system to be more transparent and i...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Women are emerging as a major force for change. Countries that have invested in girls' education...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

I have my own experience in Indonesia, of course. Sometimes in these transition situations, the new ...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Accounting for the unpaid care economy can drive progressive policies such as paid family leave, soc...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

I always enjoy the job and the work that I do, because that's the condition that I attach in acc...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will b...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Wisdom tells me I am nothing, love tells me I am everything. Between the two, my life flows.
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ

People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to th...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

If women had better access to the financial system - even so much as a basic deposit account at a ba...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly fac...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase ...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Financial inclusion matters not only because it promotes growth, but because it helps ensure prosper...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

A mountain is composed of tiny grains of earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

There is no wisdom without love.
N. SRI RAM

Urbanization has relied on land conversion and land financing, which is causing urban sprawl and, on...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produc...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

All that you are is the result of what you have thought. It is founded on your thoughts. It is made ...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

I remember my first meeting with my management team when I became Indonesia's Minister of Financ...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

If Indonesia improves governance of the fisheries sector and invests in large-scale maritime transpo...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Come! Come! Practise Yoga. Meditate seriously. You will cross this ocean of darkness and ignorance a...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

O nectar's son, O child of Immortality! Sing the song of strength. Sing the song of triumph. March f...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Love and respect the Saints of every faith.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Meditate on the desireless and fearless Brahman. You will become desireless and fearless.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Divine life is full, infinite, perfect and blissful. Therefore, lead the life divine.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

In whatever situation God places you, it is only for your betterment. Kindly do not be discouraged.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

If the mind is controlled, it is then capable of great service. If it is not subdued, it creates end...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Do not hate the evil-hearted, the jealous and the selfish. It is they who promote your Moksha
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

The education of the present-day students is a bit too bookish. The students aim at getting the degr...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Introspect. Watch the mind. It will gradually grow calmer and calmer. You will be able to find your ...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

If you are good, the whole world will be good for you.
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yo...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

Conflicting legislation and regulations, overlapping mandates, unwillingness to enforce land use, el...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Changing much-cherished bank secrecy laws is worth the effort. Corruption, tax evasion, and the capt...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

In the 1990s, I was among those Indonesians who demanded and celebrated the departure of our own aut...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we b...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA

God had created the world in play.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA

Real education aims at controlling the mind, annihilating egoism, cultivating divine virtues, and at...
SRI SWAMI SIVANANDA

The grace of God is a wind which is always blowing.
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA

Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap wil...
SRI RAMAKRISHNA PARAMHANSA

Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of pri...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the ...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But acco...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing bu...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevai...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Do what is best for most people, not just a few. Prevent your elites and growing middle class, those...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Economic success without accountability and social inclusion is not sustainable, and new governments...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.
SRI AMMA BHAGWAN

I tell you one thing / if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see...
SRI SARADA DEVI

The new definition of God - It has the root in Vedanta. The concentrated form of the whole human rac...
SRI JIBANKRISHNA OR DIAMOND

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Br...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

No one can liberate you, for no one has bound you; you hold on to the nettle of worldly pleasures an...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Blessed is the mother who gave birth; blessed and respected is the father of one who serves the True...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

There is only one breath; all are made of the same clay; the light within all is the same.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Rare, very rare, is that friend who comes and says, O my Beloved, take me into Your Embrace! O my Lo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

What is that way, by which the Lord's Praises might be sung? What is that intellect, by which this p...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

O Nanak, in the end, all this vanishes like a dream!
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

No one wants to take from me what I give abundantly.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

Develop the feeling of brotherhood of man and fatherhood of God.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

He alone knows everything, unto whom the Lord Himself gives knowledge. One may talk and preach and g...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

The True Lord writes His Inscription on each and every head.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Those whose minds are pleased by the Praises of the Lord, Har, Har, are joyful in the palaces of the...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

What good are the ceremonial lines drawn around your kitchen, when these four are seated there with ...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

The Lord has become merciful, and now I meditate on the Name of the Lord. Servant Nanak has obtained...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Servant Nanak serves the Lord, the Banker; he shall never again be called to render his account.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

The day of my wedding is pre-ordained. Come - let's gather together and pour the oil over the thresh...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of t...
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

What Glorious Virtues of Yours can I describe, O my True Guru?
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Those upon whom He casts His Glance of Grace become His happy soul-brides. One who recognizes her Lo...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Go, and ask the happy soul-brides, By what virtuous qualities do you enjoy your Husband Lord? We are...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

The discarded soul-brides suffer in terrible agony; they have no luck at all.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

O Nanak, they are forever the happy soul-brides, whose light merges into His Light.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

The happy soul-brides receive the Lord's Name, O my Lord of the Universe; night and day, their minds...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Coming and going are very difficult for that bride who is abandoned and forgotten by her Husband Lor...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA

If I had a palace made of pearls, inlaid with jewels, scented with musk, saffron and sandalwood, a s...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

People are entangled in the enjoyment of fine clothes, but gold and silver are only dust. They acqui...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB

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