Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAREvery emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
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Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
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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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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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There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
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We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.
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Don’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!
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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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Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.
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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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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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When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
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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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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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Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.
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Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
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