If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARDon’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!
More Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes
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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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Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
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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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Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
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Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.
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If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you – remember me.
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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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Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.
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When mind controls man, it’s … Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s…Yoga
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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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Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
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The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.
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What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
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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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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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