Sri sri ravi shankar quotes

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

In the present moment, we are all innocent. Wake up!

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.

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.

Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.

When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

The best form of worship is to be happy, to be grateful.

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy

Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you'll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

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.

Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized!

Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others.

The problems in the world were made so that you don’t get stuck and attached to this world. You get stuck with this world even though there are so many problems. Imagine if there are no problems, then you will never want to leave this material world!

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.

When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.

In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.

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.

Only the heart can speak or hear that which is authentic

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.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.

Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.

Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.

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?

Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.

Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.

why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.

Life works on strange laws of nature (Karma). One never knows when a friend turns enemy & vice-versa. Rely on your Self; self-reliance

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.

Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.

If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you - remember me.

Dream the impossible. Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful and unique; don't let this opportunity pass by. Give yourself the freedom to dream and think big.

Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

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.

Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.

Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss

What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

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.

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.

Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!

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

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.

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you.

To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence. To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.

There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.

When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on us, the potential to hold infinity in every cell of the body. For that, we must practice meditation regularly. Then our physiology undergoes a change and every cell in the body is filled with prana - life force. As the level of prana in the body rises, we bubble with joy.

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.

If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.

When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.

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.

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.

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.

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

Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja

Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true.

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.

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit.

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.

When the energy is high and when there is love, healing happens automatically!

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world

You are always a winner. Sometimes you win, sometimes you make others win.

You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom).

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then.

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment.

When a bud breaks it becomes a flower, when a heart breaks it becomes divine.

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."

Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.

Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

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.

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.

The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing, and jump up and down happily, that is true prayer, that is true meditation. Meditation is a fountain of joy, an ecstasy; and Divine enjoys that more. Divine is not fond of your suffering.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

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.

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.

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

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

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.