Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on acceptance
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar96 quotes“Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.”
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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.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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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Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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 ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don’t let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Your 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 ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar 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.
Sri Sri Ravi ShankarSri Sri Ravi Shankar Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
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