Sri Chinmoy Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Success, Fate, Joy

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.163, Aum Publications

• True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Rivers, Joy

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same meditation. Your meditation will not suit me, my meditation will not suit you. You like a certain food, I don't like it. You are right in your own way I am right in my own way. But once you know what your best meditation is, please stick to it.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Suits You, Giving, Meditation

• 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.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Teacher, Heart

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.217, Aum Publications

• 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.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Heart, Mean

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• True humility means giving joy to others.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Mean, Humility, Giving

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

• Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perfection, Meditation, Joy

• Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Football, Real, Play

• If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Joy, Answers

• What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Bird, Joy

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.202, Simon and Schuster

• Human love wants to possess and be possessed by the world. Divine love wants to establish its inseparable oneness with the world and then it wants to divinely enjoy this oneness. Supreme Love transforms human love into divine love and blesses divine love with boundless joy and divine pride.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Pride, Oneness

  Sri Chinmoy (2014). “The Oneness of the Eastern Heart and the Western Mind: An Introduction to Eastern Philosophy and Yoga”, p.1063, Aum Publications

• O kindle the fire of happiness ! Therein I shall see The door of friendliness, The room of greatness And the palace of godness. I shall see, I shall see.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Happiness, Greatness, Fire

• True happiness Is not a mental hallucination. True happiness Is not a complacent feeling. True happiness Is the spontaneous feeling of joy That comes from knowing 132 You are doing the right thing 133 And leading a divine life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Happiness, Knowing, Joy

• Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Motivational, Self, New Day

• What we call our joy, God calls our perfection. Each human being has come into the world with the message of perfection. Each human being will one day realize the highest Truth. Each human being is destined to be fulfilled. It is the birthright of our soul.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perfection, Joy, Soul

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• The joy of a self-giving life
  Can neither be measured
  Nor be expounded.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Self, Giving, Joy

• Say I have set my goal at 300 pounds, and I cannot do it. The very fact that I have been devotedly practising and practising gives me joy, and the tenacity or perseverance that I am showing is itself progress. Anything that we do devotedly and soulfully helps us make progress.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Perseverance, Giving, Goal

• The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

  Sri Chinmoy

  Joy, Progress, World

• We must see that God operates not only in us but in others as well. God also operates in our so-called enemies. But these are not our real enemies. Our real enemies are doubt, fear, anxiety and worry. When we do not cry to perfect others, but only try to perfect our own lives, then we will have joy.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Hate, Real, Perfection

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