On Spirituality

My spirituality
Is
My sleepless self-transcendence.

Sri Chinmoy, My Spirituality

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My spirituality
Is
My constant yearning
For something beyond.

Sri Chinmoy, My Spirituality

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My spirituality
Has two unfailing friends:
Perseverance and patience.

Sri Chinmoy, My Spirituality

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Ambition

Ambition kills spirituality.
Aspiration not only revives spirituality
But also energises and immortalises
Spirituality.

Sri Chinmoy, I Am My Life's God-Hunger-Heart, Part 2

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Question: Why are people afraid of spirituality?

Sri Chinmoy: People are afraid of spirituality because they do not know what spirituality is. Spirituality is not something foreign; it is not something vague. Spirituality shows us our true life and our only goal, and that goal is the realisation of the Infinite within us and without. If people knew the real significance of spirituality, they would in no time embrace it. Spirituality seeks to energise humanity. Without spirituality, humanity would remain always in the dark.

-April 1978

Sri Chinmoy, My Meditation-Service At The United Nations For 25 Years

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Not the only way

Satisfaction dawns
The moment you discover
That yours is not
The only way.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 19

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If you want to run the fastest,
If you want to fly the highest,
If you want to dive the deepest,
Then try to believe
That yours is not the only way
To reach humanity's ultimate Goal.

Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Part 9

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Happiness

Perfect happiness is
Enthusiasm minus
Expectation.

Sri Chinmoy, The God Of The Mind

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No fame can buy
Any lasting happiness.
True happiness is in
Sleepless self-giving.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 125

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Happiness is in self-giving. Self-giving is a secret and sacred message which we get from acceptance of earth as it is and Heaven as it is: self-giving for the final transformation of earth and for the complete manifestation of Heaven on earth. If we do this, then happiness is ours.

Sri Chinmoy, Silver Thought-Waves, Part

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Unless you become
A self-giving server of God
In man,
Your complete happiness
Will not come into being.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 150

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Real happiness can be found
Only in the world of dynamic
And self-giving activities.

Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, Part 232

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Meditation

God's Message is only happiness,
And this happiness we can get
From our soulful prayers
And fruitful meditation.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 13

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The silence of meditation
Is
The expansion of a happiness
And fulness-heart.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, Part 13

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My meditation
Is my life's
Intensity-profundity-
Experience-delight.

Sri Chinmoy, My Prayer-Life My Meditation-Heart

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I meditate
So that I can inundate
My entire being
With the omnipotent
Power of peace.

Sri Chinmoy, I Meditate So That

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