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.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARLove is giving everything and taking nothing.
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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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Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
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When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
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Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
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I 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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For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).
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Today is a gift from God – that is why it is called the present.
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Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.
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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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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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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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Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
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Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
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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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