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 SHANKARWhat path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
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Real beauty is when you’re centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
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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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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!
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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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To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.
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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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Mind 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.
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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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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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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
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Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
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When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
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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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When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
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There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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