When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWant, 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.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
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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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When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one’s life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
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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 you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.
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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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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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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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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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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.
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For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
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Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.
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When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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