Top 319 Quotes & Sayings by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - Page 2

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

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.

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 you wish #? good for others, good things come back to you.

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

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.

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.

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

Joy is never tomorrow it's always now!

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

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.

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

Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again

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

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

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

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

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.

Sickness is not just in the body, it could be in the mind, it could be in your intellect; it could be in the inhibitions of your intellect

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

When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team

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.

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

Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.

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

Love is giving everything and taking nothing

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt.

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.

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

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.

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

Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!

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.

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

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

We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.

When you are infinitely indebted for your body, for Knowledge, for things you have received, and for your own life, then you bask in the abundance of the Creator

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.

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.

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

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.

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive!

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

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

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.

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.

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