Ravi Shankar Quotes
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!
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.
The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality.
With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.
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.
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile.
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.
Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.
One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one.
Contentment and happiness! Do everything happily. Walk, talk, sit happily; even if you complain against somebody, do it happily.
In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.
In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
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.
A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.
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.
Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.
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?
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!
The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened.All you can do is your best to check it doesn't happen again.
If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.
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!
Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.
A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.
Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun
Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'
Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work
In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.
The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited.
When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.
Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work
Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft
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.