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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.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation.
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Growth Meditation Necessary Negativity Plant Remove Rest Spiritual Tree Water
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
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God Love Meditation Ourselves Person See
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
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Demand Destroy Doubt Faith Gratitude Growth Love Preserve Wisdom
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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Believe Faith Need Yourself
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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Feeling Mindset Responsibility Thinking Worry Yourself
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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Desire Happiness Satisfaction See Yourself
Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
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Life Patience People Play Role Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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Gift God Present
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.
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Home Meditation Mindset Moments
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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Disturb Happiness Irritation Love Magic Moon Music Rain
Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
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Heart Mindset Start
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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Breathe Care Death Determination Enjoyment Happiness Moments Practice Smile
Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
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Fall Love Relationship Rise
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
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Abundance Body Creation Knowledge Receive Yourself
People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
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Joy People Philosophy Search Spiritual
For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
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Devotion Freedom Life Need Skill Strength Success Yourself

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