Quotes on the subject of peace by Sri Chinmoy:

Peace we achieve
When we do not expect anything
From the world,
But only give, give, and give
Unconditionally
What we have and what we are.

- Sri Chinmoy ¹

World-peace
Can be achieved
When the power of love
Replaces
The love of power.

- Sri Chinmoy ²

“Peace does not mean the absence of war, peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness. Peace means a flood of love in the world family.”

- Sri Chinmoy ³

I heave a sigh when my mind becomes a victim to searing conflicts.
I become a singing bird when my life becomes the breath of peace.

- Sri Chinmoy ⁴

“Peace is something spontaneous; it is something that unites us. Peace is something that we have to spread. But unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world.”

- Sri Chinmoy ⁵

Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.

- Sri Chinmoy ⁶

Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity. War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity. Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart. War begins in the mind and ends in the body.

- Sri Chinmoy ⁷

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.

- Sri Chinmoy ⁸

This world of ours has everything save and except one thing: peace. And this peace has to start from within. If I have peace of mind, then only can I be of help to you. If you have peace of mind, then only can you be of help to me.”

- Sri Chinmoy ⁹

“This world of ours has everything except one thing: peace. Everybody wants and needs peace, whether he be a child or an octogenarian.”

- Sri Chinmoy, ¹⁰

“World peace can blossom throughout the length and breadth of the world only when the world-peace-dreamers, world-peace-lovers and world-peace-servers desperately, sleeplessly and breathlessly long for the full manifestation of peace here on earth.”

Sri Chinmoy, ¹¹

“To come back to the secret of inner peace, our questioning and doubting mind is always wanting in peace. Our loving and dedicated heart is always flooded with inner peace. “

- Sri Chinmoy, ¹²

Man thinks his mind’s love for world power and his heart’s love for world peace can live together. Indeed, this is the height of man’s stupidity.

- Sri Chinmoy ¹³

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“Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.”

“If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.”

“Peace is the greatest triumph of my heart’s universal oneness.”

“How can you have even an iota of peace if you do not catch your ego-thief?”

“The real in me longs for peace.
The unreal in me longs for power.”

“My heart dreams of peace, while my mind dreams of supremacy.”

Sri Chinmoy, ¹⁴

God has not forgotten
To give us peace.
He is just waiting for us
To ask for it.

- Sri Chinmoy ¹⁵

Poor is he
Who does not have peace.
Poorer is he
Who does not need peace.
Poorest is he
Who does not want to hear
People talking about peace.

- Sri Chinmoy ¹⁶

Oneness
Is peace-sea.

Sri Chinmoy ¹⁷

Peace
Is the oneness-bridge
Between my satisfaction
And the world’s satisfaction.

Sri Chinmoy ¹⁸

Peace
Is not in self-assertive
Foolhardiness.

Sri Chinmoy ¹⁹

Peace
Is in God-assertive
All-pervasiveness.

Sri Chinmoy ²⁰

I enjoy peace
Only when I am not afraid
Of changing my stubborn mind.

Sri Chinmoy ²¹

Peace
Is in self-conquest.

Sri Chinmoy ²²

Once we have this inner peace, world peace can be achieved in the twinkling of an eye.

- Sri Chinmoy ²³

My inner peace
Does not select anybody,
Does not reject anybody.
My inner peace
Always self-givingly projects itself.

- Sri Chinmoy ²⁴

“Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.”

- Sri Chinmoy ²⁵

Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God’s Choice Hour

- Sri Chinmoy ²⁶

This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart.

- Sri Chinmoy ²⁷

God’s Manifestation-Motto
Is so simple:
Peace within, peace without,
Peace between two thoughts,
Peace between two individuals,
Peace between Heaven and earth.

Sri Chinmoy,  ²⁸

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