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Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us – Devi Shakti
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings – how you feel, what you think, what you do. You are responsible.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life – this is what you are here for.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar
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