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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

Sri 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.
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Feeling Mindset Responsibility Thinking Worry Yourself
Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you’ll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.
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Acceptance Action Confusion Life People See Situation Yourself
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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Beautiful Freedom Gratitude Praise Thinking Ugly Wake Up Yourself
We are always looking for solutions from someone else. We forget that if we turn our mind inward, we can get some ideas, some solutions.
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Forget Ideas Mindset Search Solution
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.”
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Breathe Care Death Determination Enjoyment Happiness Moments Practice Smile
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
Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
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Life Patience People Play Role Stupidity Wisdom Yourself
Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!
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Angry Cheap Cost Price Smile
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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Effort Fools Freedom Generosity Give Up Secret Yourself
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
Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
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Breathe Change Connection Emotion Spiritual Yourself
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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Children Divine Faith Greatness Herself Mom Simplicity Source Strength Try
Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.
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Art Gratitude Joy Learning Let Go Life Start Teaching Yourself
When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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Bond Control Exercise Man Mindset
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.
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Bond Born Children Combination Devotion Love Strong Wisdom
The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
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Boundary Hold Limitation Universe Yourself

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