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 SHANKARLife is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
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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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Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.
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The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.
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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.
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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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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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Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
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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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Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
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Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.
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What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
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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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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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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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