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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Icon Image
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

Love is giving everything and taking nothing.

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Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible.

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Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you'll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life.

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I never intended to start a new organisation but to share what I knew.

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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.

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You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence.

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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.

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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.

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When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

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Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

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In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness.

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When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

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Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious.

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Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!

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

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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.

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When we look at the world through the eyes of the Master, the world will look so much more beautiful - not a nasty place, but a place filled with love, joy, compassion and all virtues

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When mind controls man, it’s... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga

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A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.

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Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

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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!

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Make others comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.

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The whole creation is the dance of one consciousness

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