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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

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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Deep Mindset World Yourself
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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Answer Nature Problem Solution Yourself
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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Effort Fools Freedom Generosity Give Up Secret Yourself
Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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Gift God Present
When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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Break Divine Flower Heart Broken
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
When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
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Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
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Breathe Change Connection Emotion Spiritual Yourself
Your love is unique. Let love remain love, don’t give it any name. The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. The love that is beyond relationships, that is true love.
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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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Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
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Feeling Happiness Life Mindset Misery Yourself
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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Action Charity Emotion Intellectual Knowledge Money Music Ourselves Purity Service
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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Beautiful Freedom Gratitude Praise Thinking Ugly Wake Up Yourself
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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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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