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!
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARLife 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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Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
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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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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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When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
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When 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.
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Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
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Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
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Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
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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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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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What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.
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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid 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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To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.
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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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Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
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When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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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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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 will never confront you with a problem you can’t solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.
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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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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!
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