Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARMind 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.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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Don’t Fall in love, Rise in 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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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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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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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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What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
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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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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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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 a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.
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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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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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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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