What you powerfully holding your thought-world Will make you either street beggar Or a great king.

— Sri Chinmoy

When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.

— Sri Chinmoy

When we encourage others With no personal motives, We raise high, very high, Humanity's progress-standard.

— Sri Chinmoy

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.

— Sri Chinmoy

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

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

World-peace can be achieved when the power of love replaces the love of power.

— Sri Chinmoy

Yesterday I was clever, That is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, That is why I am changing myself.

— Sri Chinmoy

You can purify your existence by feeling deep within yourself a beautiful rose or lotus, or any other flower that you like. A flower is all purity. Try to identify yourself with the consciousness of the flower or with the purity of the flower. Today it is imagination, but if you continue imagining for five days, or ten days, or a month or two, then you are bound to see and feel the flower within you. First you may feel it, then you are bound to see the existence of the flower, and then automatically the fragrance and the purity of the flower will enter into you to purify you.

— Sri Chinmoy

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

— Sri Chinmoy