Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARBeing 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.”
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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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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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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If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
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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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Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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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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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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Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
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There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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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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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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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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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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Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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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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