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Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.
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Beautiful Freedom Gratitude Praise Thinking Ugly Wake Up Yourself
When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?
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Acceptance Divine Flaw Judgement Nature Yourself
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
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Feeling Freedom Humanity Live Love Moments Present Success Yourself
If you’re saddened by another’s sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another’s joy then joy will never leave you.
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Happiness Joy Pain Sadness Yourself
Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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Care Future Happiness Perfection
Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
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Born Love Nature Time
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
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Demand Destroy Doubt Faith Gratitude Growth Love Preserve Wisdom
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation.
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Growth Meditation Necessary Negativity Plant Remove Rest Spiritual Tree Water
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.
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Deep Mindset World Yourself
Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!
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Effort Fools Freedom Generosity Give Up Secret Yourself
People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
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Joy People Philosophy Search Spiritual
All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.
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Beautiful Color Difference Different Divine Himself Identity Quality
Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again.
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Bond Born Children Combination Devotion Love Strong Wisdom
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Beautiful Freedom Gratitude Praise Thinking Ugly Wake Up Yourself
Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.
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Celebration Mindset Spirit Unity
If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
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Deep Experience Harmony Lake Mindset Philosophy See Surface Unity

Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.

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Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.

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