What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWake 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.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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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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If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
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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
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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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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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When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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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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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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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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Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
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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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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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There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.
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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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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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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.
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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.
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Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.
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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.
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When you move with this thought that ‘I want’, then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that ‘I have received’, then you are content.
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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.
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