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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar96 quotes“Nature will never confront you with a problem you can’t solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.”
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Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Being unconditionally happy is a practice: “Come what may, today I’m going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everything is going to vanish and disappear-so what! Who cares! Let me at least be happy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath.”
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Norah RoseNorah Rose A memory is a star or a stain.
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Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
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Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised and perfected them.
Michael BeckwithMichael Beckwith It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it
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Ada LimonAda Limon It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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