There comes a time in the seeker’s life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

About Sri Chinmoy

Chinmoy Kumar Ghose (27 August 1931 – 11 October 2007), better known as Sri Chinmoy, was an Indian spiritual leader who taught meditation in the United States after moving to New York City in 1964. Chinmoy established his first meditation center in Queens, New York, and eventually had 7,000 students in 60 countries.

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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.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

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

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

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

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

He who loves, never grows old. God it a shining example.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

Love is the only wealth that man absolutely needs. Love is the only wealth that God precisely is.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

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

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

Whether you accept or reject it, God’s Love for you is permanent.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

Sri Chinmoy

Indian writer and spiritual teacher (1931-2007)