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.”
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.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions – being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.
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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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The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.
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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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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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What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.
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Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
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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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When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.
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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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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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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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There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
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If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
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