Sri Chinmoy
Indian-born spiritual teacher, athlete, artist, poet, and musician whose Sri Chinmoy Centre — founded in 1964 in New York — became one of the most widely-distributed contemporary movements teaching meditation as the path to inner peace and self-transcendence. Born in 1931 in Shakpura, East Bengal (now Bangladesh), Sri Chinmoy spent twenty years at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry before moving to New York in 1964 at the invitation of his disciples. From there he built an international community of meditation centers, led the Self-Transcendence Marathon (the world's longest certified footrace, 3,100 miles around a single block in Queens), composed more than 21,000 songs, painted millions of small bird-images called 'Soul-Birds,' and wrote more than 1,500 books — a torrent of spiritual material that emphasizes the inner journey as the heart of every outer endeavor. He died in 2007.
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Quotes by Sri Chinmoy
102 quotes“Music is the universal language of the soul.”
“Through music, the soul speaks what words cannot say.”
“Compose a song every day. Sing a song every day. The world will be lifted.”
“Art is meditation made visible.”
“When you create from a meditative state, what you create blesses the world.”
“To know God, you must love God.”
“To love God, you must serve God.”
“To serve God, you must surrender to God.”
“And to surrender to God is the simplest and the most difficult thing in the world.”
“Spirituality is not what you say. Spirituality is what you become.”
“You become spiritual not by talking. You become spiritual by being silent and aspiring.”
“There is no joy without aspiration.”
“A run with the heart is a meditation.”
“Each goal achieved becomes the starting point for the next.”
“My outer running and my inner running cannot be separated.”
“My outer running fortifies my inner running.”
“My inner running illumines my outer running.”
“Self-transcendence is happiness.”
“There is no other way.”
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