People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWith 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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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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Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.
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We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.
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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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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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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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Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
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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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Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us – Devi Shakti
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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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Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.
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Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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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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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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