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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 Shankar

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
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
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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Feeling Happiness Life Mindset Misery Yourself
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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Acceptance Be Yourself Ego Feeling Myself Wall
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
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
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
When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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Break Divine Flower Heart Broken
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
Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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Generosity Kindness Love One Liner
When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
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Intention Nature Pure Support Yourself
If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.
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Body Deep Glow Meditation Religious
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 judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?
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Acceptance Divine Flaw Judgement Nature Yourself
If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
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Disturb Happiness Irritation Love Magic Moon Music Rain
Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
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Born Love Nature Time

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.

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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.

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