Sri Sri Ravi Shankar famous quotes

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

#Meditation #Puja #Body

Love is giving everything and taking nothing
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Love Is #Giving

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
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Believe #Heart #Puja

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
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Other Worlds #World #Energy

When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Abundance

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!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Letting Go #Moving #Trying

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 Shankar

#Mind #Facts #World

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Health #Light #Joy

Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Intention

The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Uplifting #Mind #States

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Opportunity #Doors #Nowhere To Go

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Home #Being In Love #Desire

Events bring you small joy, while #‎ existence brings you bliss.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Joy #Events #Bliss

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

#Journey #Space #Silence

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Love #Love Is #Emotion

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Sweet #Rain #Moon

If you are passionate, be passionate about the highest, the most wonderful, and the most beautiful. Be passionate about this entire creation for everything is so beautiful.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Beautiful #Passionate #Wonderful

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Dream #Unique #Opportunity

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

#Skills #Needs #Success In Life

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

#Yoga #Men #Mind

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

#Inspirational #Today #Gift From God

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

#Perfection #Imperfection #Rooms

A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Successful #Men #Self Love

Yoga is a study of life, study of your body, breath, mind, intellect, memory, and ego. Study of your inner faculties!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Memories #Yoga #Ego

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Winning #Mind #World

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Needs #Realizing

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!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Nice #Rivers #Water

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Wall #Feelings #Ego

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Wisdom #Love You #Home

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Life #Love Is #Meditation

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Celebration #Creation

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Letting Go #Art #Events

In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Mean #Heart #Broken

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Joy #Finding Happiness #States

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Mother #Curiosity #Spirituality

The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#World #Unlimited #Masters

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Wise #Mistake #Fool

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Caring #Two #World

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Motivation #Inspiration #Differences

A game is where you win and lose, and both are part of it. When there is more chance of losing, it is more charming. The game has value when it is tough. So some little problems that come in life are part of the whole game.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Winning #Games #Littles

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Mother #Love You #Newborn

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Color #Diversity #Rainbow

People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Self #Knowing #People

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

#Heart #Mind #Down And

Why do you think you are weak? Wake up and see you have all the strength.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Thinking #Wake Up #Weak

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Ignorance #Silence #Mind

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Heart #Speak #Argument

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

#Love You #Worry #Enemy

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Spiritual #Practice #Mind

How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Eye #Heaven #Looks

Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Giving #Longing #Creation

You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Silence #Speech #Awareness

The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched, pure and ever green,blissful area of our Self
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Self #Purpose #Body

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Ocean #Meditation #Intuition

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
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Joy #Silence #Purpose

The wave uniting with its depth is yoga.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Yoga #Uniting #Depth

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Joy #Sorrow #Dawn

When there is a fountain of colours, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colours.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Ignorance #Add #Emotion

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Different #Guru #Shows

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

#Mistake #Punishment #Guilt

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

#Peaceful #Depth #Calm

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Games #Play #Purpose

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
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Flower #Love Is #Dancing

The bigger our vision for the world, the less personal worries we have.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Worry #Vision #World

Enthusiasm is the nature of life. Become one whose enthusiasm never dies.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Enthusiasm

Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Use #Awareness

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

#Lonely #Love You #Care

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

#Mind #Today #Should

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Heart #Meditation #Devotion

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

#Healthy #Mind #Likes

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
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Love Is #Unique #Names

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Attachment #Divine #Charm

Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Dream #One Day

Walk lightly on this #‎ planet and yet leave such a #‎ footprint that cannot be erased for thousands of years!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Years #Footprint #Planets

Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Play #Mind #Important

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Emotion #Rhythm #Connected

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

#Love Is #Silence #Arise

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

#Meditation #Way #Negative

When the energy is high and when there is love, healing happens automatically!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Healing #Energy

Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Eye #Looks #World

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Loss #Winning #Ego

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

#Art

Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Giving #Chance #Divine

When attention is given to the spiritual aspect of one's life, it brings a sense of belongingness, and responsibility, compassion and caring for the whole of humanity.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Spiritual #Responsibility #Caring

Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Regret #New Beginnings #Mean

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

#Mind #Faces #Stability

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Powerful #Healing #Meditation

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 Shankar

#Lakes #Mind #Unions

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

#Space #Ego #Looks

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

#Perfection #Desire #Rooms

Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Care #Comfort #Take Care

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Home #Meditation #Mind

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Doe #Divine #Existence

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.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Mother #Children #Trying

You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Spiritual #Real #Practice

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

#Joy #And Love #Misery

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

#Congratulations #Path #Firsts

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Compassion #And Love #Spirituality

Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Hands #People #Good Work

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#Children #Enlightenment #Becoming