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“You are not a copy of anyone. You are an original.”
“Trust your own pace. Walk your own walk.”
“Do not envy the runner ahead. Do not pity the runner behind.”
“Run your race. The finish line is yours alone.”
“The Self-Transcendence Race is not a race against others.”
“It is a race against yesterday's limits.”
“Today, run beyond yesterday's limits.”
“My Lord, my Lord, when shall I see you face to face?”
“You are seeing Me right now, in every face you meet.”
“To see God in others is to see God Himself.”
“Be like a flame. Burn for what you love.”
“Be like a river. Flow toward what you love.”
“Be like a tree. Stand firm in what you love.”
“In every endeavor, the inner is more important than the outer.”
“The outer comes from the inner.”
“Cultivate the inner. The outer follows naturally.”
“Faith is not blindness. Faith is the inner certainty.”
“Faith says: I have seen with the inner eye what the outer eye cannot yet see.”
“Be patient with yourself. The seed becomes a tree slowly.”
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