Sri Chinmoy Life Quotations

The word 'yoga' means skill - skill to live your life, to manage your mind, to deal with your emotions, to be with people, to be in love and not let that love turn into hatred.

Yoga is self-conquest. Self-conquest is God-realisation. He who practises yoga does two things with one stroke: he simplifies his whole life, and he gets free access to the Divine.

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love, not pure love. If loves means to give oneself, to become one with everything and everyone, then that is real love. Real love is total oneness with the object loved and with the Possessor of love.

Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.

Love is something that never cared to learn how to judge anybody.

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.

Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.

Man is by nature a lover. Only he has yet to discover the real thing to love. This quest awakens him to the fulfillment of his real Self.

Hatred is a disguised form of love. You can only hate someone whom you really wish to love, because if you were totally indifferent to that person, you could not even get up enough energy to hate him.

Life is nothing but the expansion of love. We can cultivate divine love by entering into the Source. The Source is God, who is all Love.

Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.

Do not judge but love and be loved, if you want to be really happy.

Instead of creating a reason why you cannot love the world, try to create a reason why you should and must love the world.

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