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 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.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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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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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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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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Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
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When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one’s life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
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When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
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The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It’s a Path of joy. It’s a Path of singing and dancing. It’s not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.
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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.
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Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
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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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We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.
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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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Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.
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