Chinmoy Kumar Ghose Quotes

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Lack of harmony comes when I feel that I know how to do something better than you. Lack of harmony is the song and dance of superiority. Because everybody feels superior, disharmony at every moment is entering into our lives.

Since life is but a continuous series of experiences, everything ultimately helps me towards my final enlightenment.

What we need is a life of balance — neither to wallow in the pleasures of wealth nor to lead a life of asceticism, but to embrace a life of simplicity and a heart of purity.

What is love? From the spiritual and inner point of view, love is self-expansion. Human love binds and is bound. Divine Love expands, enlarges itself.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

If you really want to love humanity, then you have to love humanity as it is now.

Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.

War forgets peace. Peace forgives war. War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine. Our vital passions want war. Our psychic emotions desire peace.

I do not give up, I never give up, for there is nothing in this entire world that is irrevocably unchangeable.

In my philosophy everyone, including the poor, sick and aged, belongs to one family — God’s Family. God is at once poor and rich, sick and healthy, young and old, for He exists inside each and every individual. Here on earth we are all God’s children.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

The atom has taught me that the little things do count — most.

No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God's own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.