Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.Collection: Charity
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion to an object that is ugly is a thought. Your craving or aversion is nothing but a passing thought in the mind. Realize this is just a thought and you will be free.Collection: Appreciation
Boredom is a blessing when it leads you to wisdom. And boredom is a curse when it leads you to frustration and depression.Collection: Blessing
Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you.Collection: Inspiring
If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.Collection: Winning
Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the worldCollection: People
Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally softCollection: Strong
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.Collection: Needs
If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you.Collection: Joy
Faith is giving the divine a chance to act.Collection: Giving
Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.Collection: Art
Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.Collection: Use
Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Dream
Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity!Collection: Inspirational
Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.Collection: Perfect
Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.Collection: Mind
Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.Collection: Meditation
If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Bothering You
A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.Collection: Healthy
If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.Collection: Mind
Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.Collection: Mean
The overwhelming problem in the world today, everyone knows, is terrorism, where people in the name of religion kill each other, kill others just to go to heaven, and thinking only they will go to heaven.Collection: Thinking
Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.Collection: Spirituality
Teachers can be a living example to their students. Not that teachers should look for students to idealize them. One who is worth idealizing does not care whether others idealize them or not. Everyone needs to see that you not only teach human values but you live them. It is unavoidable sometimes you will be idealized -- it is better for children to have a role model, or goal, because then the worshipful quality in them can dawn.Collection: Teacher
A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditationCollection: Tree
Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happensCollection: Opposites
Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousnessCollection: Sky
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only with the Divine, not with anyone else, as that will only increase the problems. Share your joy with everyone. Listen to others; yet do not listen. If your mind gets stuck in their problems, not only are they miserable, but you also become miserable.Collection: Joy
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!Collection: Ignorance
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.Collection: Mean
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 SelfCollection: Self
Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.Collection: Spring
Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.Collection: Meditation
Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that stateCollection: Memories
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.Collection: Ignorance
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.Collection: Practice
Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind doesCollection: Mind
Joy is never tomorrow it's always now!Collection: Joy
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.Collection: Long
When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.Collection: Spiritual
Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.Collection: Comfort
Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation.Collection: Mean
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice.Collection: Spiritual
Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.Collection: Ocean
Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them.Collection: Children
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 PujaCollection: Believe