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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARMake 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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All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.
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Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.
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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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Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
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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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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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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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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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Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
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Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
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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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Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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