Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Chinmoy

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

Sri Chinmoy

Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

Sri Chinmoy

There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is.

Sri Chinmoy

Precious and spacious The aspiring heart has to remain Always.

Sri Chinmoy

Either by silencing the mind or by opening the heart, today's man can become tomorrow's God, tomorrow's Divinity. And embodied Divinity soon becomes revealed Immortality.

Sri Chinmoy

God tells me that My happy heart Increases the beauty Of His universal Heart.

Sri Chinmoy

We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.

Sri Aurobindo

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

Sri Aurobindo

On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, mūlādhāra, is the seat of the vital.

Sri Aurobindo

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

Sri Aurobindo

What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

Sri Aurobindo

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Sri Chinmoy

Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened wide.

Sri Chinmoy

When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

Sri Chinmoy

Our mind thinks of death, our heart thinks of life, and our soul thinks of immortality.

Sri Chinmoy

Unless and until you have developed a heart inundated with compassion, do not sit on the seat of judgement.

Sri Chinmoy

My heart needs only one thing. It needs to be guided Along the age-old path Of life-blossoming self-awareness.

Sri Chinmoy

I have opened up an account With God's Heart-Bank. Therefore, I see nowhere The battering waves of poverty-thoughts.

Sri Chinmoy

The Goal can disappear From the mind's sight But not From the heart's vision.

Sri Chinmoy

Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today.

Sri Chinmoy

My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

Sri Chinmoy

Let us not try to understand music with our mind. Let us not even try to feel it with our heart. Let us simply and spontaneously allow the music-bird to fly in our heart-sky. While flying, it will unconditionally reveal to us what it has and what it is. What it has, is Immortality's message. What it is, is Eternity's passage.

Sri Chinmoy

If hope is just a mere wish, if it is just like making friends with fantasy, then consciousness will not respond to it. But if it is something significant, like a vision that is trying to blossom inside the heart of an individual, then consciousness will be elevated.

Sri Chinmoy

Keep an open heart To allow the world Lovingly and faithfully To come in.

Sophia Loren

Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.

Sonia Braga

I think of a movie as a human body. You can feel the pump of the heart and the blood going through the veins when you watch that scene.

Sonia Rykiel

[Nathalie Rykiel] knows by heart the genetic codes of the brand, and she also has a very contemporary and creative opinions about it.

Rutherford B. Hayes

In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.

Ruta Sepetys

I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.

Ron Kaufman

Convince people and you win their minds. Inspire people and you win their hearts.

Ron Kaufman

Always be kind in your heart, spirit and mind.

Roger Clemens

I was pitching on all adrenaline and challenging them. I was throwing the ball right down the heart of the plate.

Sam Smith

Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.