Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.
SRI SRI RAVI SHANKARWe 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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Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
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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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When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
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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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Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
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Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.
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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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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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What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love.
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If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
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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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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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There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
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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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Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.
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