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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARReal beauty is when you’re centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARYour worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings – how you feel, what you think, what you do. You are responsible.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARIf 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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARFeeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life – this is what you are here for.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARDon’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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen 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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARMeditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARA 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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWith charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWake 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 SHANKARFavorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARSpiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions – being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARBeing 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.”
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARLove is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARI tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.
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