Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWant, 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.
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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Your love is unique. Let love remain love, don’t give it any name. The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. The love that is beyond relationships, that is true love.
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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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When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.
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Nature will never confront you with a problem you can’t solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears before you.
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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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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.
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The 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.
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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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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.
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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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When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
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People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
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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
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With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
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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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