Ravi Shankar Quotes
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.
Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state
In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.
You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence
Have "eternal wait," infinite patience. When you have infinite patience, you will realize God belongs to you. Either through awareness or through practice you reach the same spot.
No emotions are bad. But if they stay for long, then it is bad. Emotions should be like a line drawn on the surface of water.
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.
You walk until you come to the ocean. You don't walk or run in the ocean - you float and swim. Like this once you come to the Master, seeking stops, blossoming begins.
In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march.
A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax!
Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!
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.
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.
Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.
Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.
Keep wondering whether your waking reality is a dream and you will wake up to the real.
In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy.
The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.
See the possibility that people and things can change at any time and don't hold on to judgements.
Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!
Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.
Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.
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
A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.
Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.
Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.
Walk lightly on this # planet and yet leave such a # footprint that cannot be erased for thousands of years!
To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.
The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.
When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.
Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens