Sri Chinmoy

Sri Chinmoy

Spiritual leader and peace advocate.

An Indian spiritual teacher who emphasized the unity of all religions and the importance of inner peace through meditation. His teachings encouraged self-transcendence and devotion, guiding individuals to connect with their higher selves and the divine. A prolific author, poet, and musician, he was known for his deep compassion and for inspiring others to embrace love, joy, and the pursuit of spiritual realization in their everyday lives.

Sri Chinmoy Quotes about Heart

  • I have opened up an account with God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere the battering waves of poverty-thoughts.
  • Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.
  • When you are right, everything around you is right, for the beautiful flow that is inside your heart has the capacity to spread its fragrance of oneness-light all around you.
  • Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.
  • Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgment.
  • Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.
  • Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.
  • If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions which is the love of God. Forgiveness, compassion, tolerance, brotherhood and the feeling of oneness are the signs of a true religion.
  • Your heart must become a sea of love. Your mind must become a river of detachment.
  • My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided along the age-old path of life-blossoming self-awareness.
  • Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.
  • Determination can change your mind. Determination can change your heart. Determination can change your life altogether.
  • 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.
  • Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.
  • Love the world with your heart's dreams. Serve the world with your life's promises.
  • My heart's gratitude is my life's plenitude.
  • 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.