Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
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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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Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
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Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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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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Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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Your love is unique. Let love remain love, don’t give it any name. The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. The love that is beyond relationships, that is true love.
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Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
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With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
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Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you’ll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.
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If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.
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The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
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Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
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We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.
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Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.
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We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.
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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
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Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
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Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
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Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
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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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Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
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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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Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.
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Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
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Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
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