Inspirational Quotes

" The more you squeeze the sugarcane, sweeter is the juice that comes. The more you cut the diamond, the more it shines. Nature puts you though many different tasks and tests, and you come out shining from it all. You just remember nature will not give you a burden which you cannot carry. "

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Quotes on Service by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

"The bet form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind."

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Quote on Letting Go

"Living like a child with apprehension is called surrender; thinking that everybody belongs to me and just believing in that is surrender"

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Quotes on Life

The more you give , the more you will get. Then life will become a sheer dance of love.

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Go through Life with dedication & commitment. Your life is dedicated to a cause on this planet.This brings valor, vigor, peace & stability.

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

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Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Celebration

Let time celebrate your presence, you keep smiling as ever.

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Celebration is the nature of the spirit. A celebration without spirituality has no depth. Silence gives depth to celebration.

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Life is celebration. You must grab and use every opportunity, everyday, to celebrate and be grateful, Celebration cannot happen by just putting flowers and ballons; it has to happen from within.

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Celebration.

Inspirational Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You can see love everywhere in this world if you have an eye to see it.

Just open your fist and the sky is there in your hand.

In this creation every blade of grass has importance. More than anything YOU are very important.

Measure your success by the number of hours you smile. Your smile and your confidence indicate your success. Your fearlessness and ability to share and care for people indicate your success. 

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True Freedom

True freedom is not an "I don't care" attitude. It is lightness from within, a genuine smile and lack of stiffness. Such freedom will not bring arrogance. - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar 

Inspirational Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

" When good times come, your worst enemy starts helping you, and when bad times come, even your best friend behaves like an enemy. All these things happen due to some very strange karma. An intelligent person doesn’t get caught up in all this. He still keeps putting in his effort, and keeps moving on. " 

~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar ~

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Happiness

Happiness is when you want nothing & you want to give.

Where the wanting and desires end & the sharing begins, happiness is there. 

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, 

if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love

Life gives you both positive & negative.Focus on the good & move ahead with commitment.

A sign of success is confidence. 

Even if you lose everything and have your confidence, you can re-create everything 

Happiness is right here and now and & way to find it is through Meditation. 

It improves our mind, health and brings more happiness. 

Life is all about being happy irrespective of the situation you are in.

Get to know - How to be happy

Quotes on Letting go & Moving about

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..

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You are free this very moment. At any moment you can relax totally and let go, that very moment you are peaceful.

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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.

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Passion to do things and ability to let go - this is the skill.

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Quotes on Surrender by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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Surrender doesn’t mean the absence of action. Be active; be dynamic, but not obsessed with the feverishness about fulfilling the desires.

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Surrender is about the past,U are pure in the present moment.Honour the purity without ascertaining it &U can lead the world with equanimity.

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Quotes on Relationship by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you don’t have a relationship with yourself, all other relationships become shallow. And if your relationship with yourself is so profound and steady then you naturally develop the skill to handle any kind of relationship around you.

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The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. Dive deep into a Love that is beyond relationship.

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For love to blossom in relationship, there needs to be longing…and longing needs a little space.Though it is a little painful, longing is inevitable. If you don’t allow longing, then love does not grow. So, give them some space…and take some space yourself.

Quotes on friendship by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A real friend is one whose company uplifts us; an untrue friend is one whose company brings us down.

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Ask yourself what is it that you want from your real friend. You will find there is really nothing. You just want the friendship. Friendliness is your nature. It has no motive or purpose. It does not matter whom you are friendly with.

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Your mind can be your best friend if it is under your reins or your worst enemy if you are under its reins.

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

Quotes on friendship by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Quotes on Divinity by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you wish good for others,

good things come back to you.

This is a Law of Nature.

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God does not create evil.

Evil happens when you move 

away from God.

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Prayer is speaking to God.

Meditation is listening to God.

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The Divine is within you, you are in god and god is in you. This realization can happen when the stress, tension worries, and anxieties are all lifted off from the mind. The mind is the cover that is holding the divinity within us.

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The only purpose for this body to exist is to make you aware of how beautiful you are, and to make you aware that it is possible to live all the values you cherish and create a world of Divinity around you.

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Divinity

Quotes on Smile by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The visible sign of utter love is undying smile.

A moment of quiet serene smile speaks volumes that even thousand words cannot convey. Keep Smiling and Keep Serving.

A genuine smile can only happen when stress is gone and meditation releases stress.

Smile, Laughter and Meditation  are Privileges of Human Life.

Success is an attitude and not a phenomenon. The sign of success is an everlasting smile.

True freedom is lightness from within, a genuine smile & lack of stiffness. Such freedom will not bring arrogance.

Quotes on Smile by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Quotes by Sri Sri on Overcoming Problems in Life

A game is where you win and lose, and both are a 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.

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Always remember this: Nature will never confront you with a problem you cannot solve. You already have the answer, that is why the question appears in front of you.

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Problems and challenges are there in everyone's Life. Wisdom and Devotion give us the strength to overcome these easily.

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All the problems that you face in life are because you attach over importance to the events. The events grow bigger while you remain smaller.

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on overcoming the problems in Life

Quotes on Faith by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar - 2

Faith is like a mountain and doubts are like clouds.

Can any cloud anytime shake a mountain? It is impossible. 

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Faith is to love something you have no idea about ...

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Being in love is the job of the heart and being in doubt is the job of the head. 

Both have got their places. You need to have both.  How much doubt can you have? Just keep having and when all the doubts are over and no more doubts come up, from there, faith begins.

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

Dissemination of energy is doubt.

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If your faith remains unshaken despite a hundred events that nature brings to you, 

then you are a perfect person and life becomes smooth.

Quotes on Faith by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Quotes on Faith by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

Faith is your armor, false securities won’t allow you to grow.The Divine is your true security & faith is giving the Divine a chance to act

Faith in yourself brings freedom.          

Faith in the world brings you peace of mind.

Faith in God evokes love in you.

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

Faith in the world brings you peace of mind. Faith in God evokes love in you.

Quotes on Faith by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To be continued...

Quotes on Life By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Any miracle can happen anytime.

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Your life is perfect. It is a perfect plan and it is a spontaneous miracle every moment.

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

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Life is a combination of form & formless. Discarding the formless, you become inert. Discarding the form, you become emotionally unbalanced.

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Wake up and see that life is too short. The realization that life is short will bring dynamism to your life.

Quotes on Life By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Prayer

Prayer and meditation are very close. In prayer, you are thanking or asking for something; whereas in meditation, one is ready to listen. You could call meditation a higher form of prayer.

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Prayer within breath Is silence Love within Infinity Is silence.Wisdom without word Is silence.Compassion without aim Is silence.Action without doer Is silence.Smiling with all the Existence Is silence!

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Prayer is not asking for something; it is gratitude; a recognition of the huge tidal waves of Love that God is pouring on you every moment.

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Prayer is gratefulness,a recognition of the huge tidal waves of love that God is pouring on you every moment.

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Quotes on Happiness

When you say I want nothing : that is happiness.

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Just keep moving with one faith, one knowledge, one sense of gratefulness.

We are happy we are on this planet, as long as we are here, let's do good.

One day, we'll all be gone. For sure, we'll all be gone.

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Mind without agitation is meditation.

Meditation is a necessity if you want to be happy and peaceful.

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Realize that each one of you is a special Gift!!

Offer Gift of Service and you will wonder how your needs are being taken care of.

Quotes on Happiness by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Inspirational quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Just wake up and see that all the past is only a memory. In the flow of time, all events are dissolving.

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Everything is changing in the world. People who say, ‘I cannot live without you’, later say, ‘I cannot stand you!’ This happens so often. When we go in search of friends in the world, we find that we don’t get a good friend. Search inside, make friends with your own Higher Self, with your inner Spirit, you find that friendliness comes out of you naturally. When you are friendly, the whole world becomes your friend. Everybody turns to you.

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Challenges are there to make you see that you can overcome them, that you have the energy. Your spirit should be high at all times. It doesn’t matter, never mind, keep moving and keep your spirit high. That is the main lesson - that you are unaffected by the event. Lessons come out of challenges. These are momentary challenges; see them off with a smile.

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Quotes on Self Realization by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Anything can become a botheration for you. One should hold on to - Come what may, I must not lose my happiness .This is wisdom.

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If we live life on superficial level, life becomes so dry and uninteresting. However, when we connect with each other from our heart, then there is some genuineness. And that genuineness makes life more beautiful and more authentic.

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Whatever happens, happens', just say that and see what happens.

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When you go with an idea, a dream, there will be many who want to pour cold water over your enthusiasm. The challenge is to face this and keep up your enthusiasm.

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Getting rid of people and things is not the answer; but dealing with them with skill is the answer.

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See everybody as nothing but frequencies. It is not worth losing your smile for anything out there. Of someone is getting annoyed or jealous, just say " 'Hey! Wave function! The frequency has changed' , that's all.

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Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Self Realization.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes on Meditation

Smile, Laughter and Meditation are Privileges of Human Life.

Meditation is the solution to a serene mind which is above craving and aversion.

Only meditation can satisfy the hunger of the soul.

Meditation is becoming alive again;getting back to the serenity which is your original nature, absolute joy, a love without opposite values.

Meditation is getting back to our source which is enormous and unfathomable.

In any situation,Meditation keeps the spirit high.When the spirit is high,one can deal with ailments of the body better.

Meditation is moving from the scenery to the Seer.
 

Happiness is right here and now and & way to find it is through Meditation. It improves our mind, health and brings more happiness.

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Meditation.

Get to know more about Sudarshan Kriya and Meditation.

Spiritual Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Know that the Divine loves you immeasurably.Surrender your worries & live Life with a smile.

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Divinity is experienced when the mind is silent. Just like the wave is part of the Ocean,we are not separate from the Divine.
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Longing for the Divine is the Divine itself. The more one sips from the Divine,the thirstier one gets.
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The Divine is always there & therefore is here right this very moment inside me. Resting with this knowledge is Meditation.

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If we focus on the Divine even for 24 minutes out of 24 hours,there will be awareness,contentment,peace in our life.
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Faith is giving the Divine a chance to act.
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Know your Being to be bigger than an act or an action. May the Divine give the right thought leading to right action.

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Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Self Realization

You can only love something, because it is belongs to you. If it is not yours, you cannot love it. Love is the shadow of the Self. The bigger the Self, the bigger the shadow, and the bigger the love.
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Everything is changing in the world. People who say, ‘I cannot live without you’, later say, ‘I cannot stand you!’ This happens so often. When we go in search of friends in the world, we find that we don’t get a good friend. Search inside, make friends with your own Higher Self, with your inner Spirit, you find that friendliness comes out of you naturally. When you are friendly, the whole world becomes your friend. Everybody turns to you.

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Self is the ocean and mind is a wave....
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Connect to your Self. When you go within & let go of anxiety & know that you are loved by the Universe, you get inner strength.
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The Self is the center of the whole Creation.

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Quotes on Beautiful Life by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love is love, you can’t call it is true or false. We don’t doubt hate. What is the guarantee that people hate you? Love is our nature. Because of desires & greed our love is not expressed sometimes. No prani (living being) exists without priti (love). Prana (life-force energy) springs from love. Million atoms together form the body. Without love the atoms would be separated and that is death. Don’t doubt love!

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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.

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The more service you do, the more merit you acquire in life. The more merit comes, the more peaceful and serene you become from within.

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Just be in the simple and innocent state of "I don't know!". This life is a beautiful mystery . Just live it ! When we live this mystery of life so totally, then joy dawns.

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Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Divine Love

The path of love is not tedious path. It's a path of joy. Its a path of singing and dancing.

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Attachment happens when your focus is not on the Being, but on the outside. Wanting to control, possess and hold on brings pain. When we are relaxed and content, love transforms to bliss. Demand and control only bring pain. Wisdom, along with love, is the answer.

 

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Life springs from love. The origin is love and life seeks love. The goal of life is also love, and in between life is sustained by love.

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You are made up of a substance called love.

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

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To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.

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Happy Holi Quotes

Like Holi, Life should be colourful; not boring. Harmony in diversity makes life vibrant, joyful and more colourful.

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Colors are the complexity of life. White is the simplicity. When your heart is pure, your life becomes so colorful.
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Holi is a festival of fun and frolic, of happiness. It is a festival where you are coloured in colours of your soul.

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Wish you all a Happy and Colorful Holi

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Quotes on Gratitude by Sri Sri

If you are grateful, gratitude will increase in you and you will be given more.

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Knowing that ‘I have all the blessings, I have the grace, the best will happen to me’, you should move ahead.

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Grace amplifies the effect of good Karma & reduces the effect of bad Karma.
 
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Anything that comes to you not just by your effort and not because you qualify, you can consider it a gift; as grace. And grace grows by gratitude. When you demand there is no grace, but when you are grateful it comes in abundance.
 
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Prayer is not asking. It is gratitude; a recognition of the huge tidal waves of love that God is pouring on you every moment.

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

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An intense desire can frustrate you or make you prayerful. In prayerfulness, there is gratitude & devotion.

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Quotes on Dreams by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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.

Life is a dream and everything will come to an end. With this knowledge, mind becomes pleasant and intellect sharp

Often when you are happy you feel life is a dream because you do not believe in the reality of it. When there is misery you feel life is a burden. We take trivial things very seriously. One who has really gone through the pleasure realizes that pleasure is a burden. And if you have undergone misery thoroughly you will realize that life is a dream. 

Know that you are born in this world to do something wonderful & unique. Give yourself the freedom to dream & think big.

~ Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on dreams. 

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Quotes on Self Development by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Perfect balance is like a razor's edge, it can be found only in the Self.

You are like a free bird. You are fully open. Feel that you are flying like a bird. Learn to fly. This is something which you have to experience within yourself. There is nothing else. If you consider yourself as bonded, you will remain bound here. Be free. When will you experience freedom? Become free right now.

Being young at heart means being enthusiastic, willingness to do anything and to create something new ...

God will dance in our life when the day dawns in laughter and love. Don't just laugh outside but from deep inside too. True laughter is true prayer. In nature, everything is waiting for you to laugh. When you laugh, all of nature laughs with you. When things are alright, everybody can laugh, but when everything falls apart, then if you can laugh, that is evolution and growth.

When you face difficult situations in life, the peace and stability in you depends on the amount of faith you have.Faith is realizing that you will always get what you need. Faith is giving the Divine a chance to act.

~ Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Quotes on Celebration by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration

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 Every day should be a celebration and when there is celebration, there is no violence.

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Celebration is the nature of the Spirit. A celebration without spirituality has no depth.Silence gives depth to Spirituality.

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If your faith remains unshaken despite a hundred events that nature brings to you, then you are a perfected person and life becomes smooth.

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 Every day should be a celebration and when there is celebration, there is no violence.

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Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Life

A moment of quiet serene smile speaks volumes that even thousand words cannot convey. Keep Smiling and Keep Serving.

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You die every moment to be alive every moment.

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In every desperate moment, there is a ray of hope that carries life along.

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Living every moment in Life with contentment brings you freedom.

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Happiness is your very nature and it is in the Present Moment; it is the direction in which Life tends to flow.

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The present moment is so deep & vast.It contains the entire past & future.

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Events come and go, they perish like flowers. But every event and every person contains some honey. Like a bee, just take the honey out of every event and every moment and move on. Be like a busy bee and be in the being.

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Just wake up and see that all the past is only a memory. In the flow of time, all events are dissolving.

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Quotes on Joy By Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Events bring you small joy, while existence brings you bliss.

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There are 2 ways to do an action- one is an expectation of joy & the other is an expression of joy which reflects care & commitment.

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If the mind is bitter you can't find joy anywhere. If the mind is sweet,you find joy everywhere.

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Just be in the simple & innocent state of ‘‘I don’t know!’’ When we live the beautiful mystery of life so totally,then joy dawns.

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The way to expand from individual to universal consciousness is to share others' sorrow & joy.

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Feel grateful for your very existence & all the love you have received. This will bring happiness & joy to you.

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A life without joy, celebration & service, a heart without compassion and an intellect without intuition are good for nothing.

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For the wise, every act is an expression of happiness. Living in the moment with joy,awareness & compassion is happiness.

-- Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Meditation

Meditation makes life musical and music can lead to a deep sense of inner peace.

Meditation is the soul for mind.

Meditation is total rest; wanting nothing, being nothing, doing nothing and yet having total alertness effortlessly.

Meditation erases the impressions and improves the expression.

Smile, Laughter and Meditation are Privileges of Human Life.

Meditation is Absolute Comfort & getting back to the serenity which is your original nature.

Meditation is seeing divinity in yourself. 

Love is seeing divinity in person next to you.

Wisdom is seeing divinity everywhere.

~ Quotesby Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Inspirational quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Every bud has all that it needs to be a flower

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Everything is temporary,only you are permanent. Accept this with a smile, meditate. Strength from deep within you will arise.

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Know that the Divine loves you immeasurably.Surrender your worries & live Life with a smile.

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Everything is changing in the world. People who say, ‘I cannot live without you’, later say, ‘I cannot stand you!’ This happens so often. When we go in search of friends in the world, we find that we don’t get a good friend. Search inside, make friends with your own Higher Self, with your inner Spirit, you find that friendliness comes out of you naturally. When you are friendly, the whole world becomes your friend. Everybody turns to you.

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For success in life you need yukti (skill), shakti (strength), Bhakti…

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True success in life is to manage ourselves 

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Happiness depends 'only' on your mind. Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity.

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Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Service

Love is the essence of the universe. Love in action is service.
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Let my hands be of service to people. Let me earn wisdom through my hands. Let my hands do good work.
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When you make service your sole purpose in Life, it eliminates fear, brings focus in the mind, a sense of purpose & long term joy.
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Knowledge purifies the mind. Love purifies the heart. Seva (Service) purifies Karma.
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Service without attitude, love without reason, knowledge without intellect, life beyond events is What You Are.

~ Quotesby Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Service
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