When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARIf you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARLove 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 SHANKARMisery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
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 SHANKARWhen someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWhen a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARThere is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARFaith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWe are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.
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 SHANKARSpiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
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 SHANKARThe Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It’s a Path of joy. It’s a Path of singing and dancing. It’s not a desert. It is a valley of flowers.
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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