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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARFaith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
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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 mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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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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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 your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
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There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
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What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.
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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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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 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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If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you – remember me.
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Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life – this is what you are here for.
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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
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Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.
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Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don’t let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.
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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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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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Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
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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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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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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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Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
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Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
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