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When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Real beauty is when you’re centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don’t let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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 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 Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.
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