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What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.
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Celebration Mindset Spirit Unity
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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Body Breathe Greatness Need Ourselves Secret Sleep Tired
Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.
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Life Miracle Moments Perfection Planning Yourself
Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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Ability Communication Improvement Innovation Knowledge Spiritual
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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Happiness Joy Pain Sadness Yourself
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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Deep Experience Harmony Lake Mindset Philosophy See Surface Unity
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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Combination Destiny Freedom Life Willing Yourself
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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Desire Happiness Satisfaction See Yourself
Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
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Heart Mindset Start
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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Gratitude Move Satisfaction Thinking Yourself
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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Abundance Body Creation Knowledge Receive Yourself
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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Growth Meditation Necessary Negativity Plant Remove Rest Spiritual Tree Water
The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
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Feeling Freedom Humanity Live Love Moments Present Success Yourself
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
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Demand Destroy Doubt Faith Gratitude Growth Love Preserve Wisdom
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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Beautiful Freedom Gratitude Praise Thinking Ugly Wake Up Yourself
Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.
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Act Divine Faith One Liner
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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Adversity Beginning Opportunity Philosophy Yourself
Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
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Angry Control Live Love Ourselves Perfection Room
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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Generosity Happiness Joy Love Misery Yourself
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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Attitude Character Humble Storm Touch Tree Yourself
Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us – Devi Shakti
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Energy Spiritual World
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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Dance Flower Joy Love Path Sing
Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
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Fall Love Relationship Rise
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
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Attachment Life Ocean Rescue Surrender Team Wait
Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.
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Doubt Energy Faith Stability Yourself
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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Hands Life Play Serious Yourself
Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.
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Celebration Easy Game Life Light Play Purpose Worship

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