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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love.
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Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
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If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
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Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.
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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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Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
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Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
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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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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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For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.
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I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.
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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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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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When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?
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