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 SHANKARFor success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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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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Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
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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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Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
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People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
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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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A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
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Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
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Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.
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Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
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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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