100 Inspiring Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a spiritual master who has been spreading the message of peace to people around the world since 1982.
He founded the Art of Living Foundation in 1978 with his first wife Gayatri Devi.
His teachings have been embraced by millions of people around the world. He is well known for bringing together musicians, artists and activists to work towards social justice and environmental sustainability.
The lessons of Sri Ravi Shankar have turned into a wellspring of direction and motivation for individuals to embrace a recuperating mentality towards Life and every living thing.
I’ve compiled a list of 100 of the most famous Life Changing Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes on Happiness, Peace, Love and Faith for you guys to enjoy today.
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100 Inspiring Quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Happiness, Peace, Love, and Faith
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If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Every moment you spend on this planet, remember that you are here for a unique purpose & cause, far greater than to just eat, sleep & talk.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.
Don’t postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There is nothing for you to take away from this world. You have come to give.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is preserved by wisdom. Destroyed by demand, tested by doubt, nourished by longing. It blossoms with faith and grows with gratitude.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Your richness is on your ability to share and not in how much you have.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you judge others, look at yourself – You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn’t judge you. Who are you to judge?
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
People search for joy everywhere not knowing that the Self is the source of all joy.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.
– 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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When the energy is high and when there is love, healing happens automatically!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don’t focus on what others want. See what it is that you want.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn’t bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn’t set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence. To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Why can’t we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is giving everything and taking nothing.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Do not make an effort to impress others. When you come from the self, your expression is perfect and your impression lasts for ages.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When everything is in abundance, dispassion happens. And when dispassion is there, everything comes in abundance.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don’t Fall in love, Rise in Love!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions – being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
There is no use getting angry at something that has already happened. All you can do is your best to check it doesn’t happen again.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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To grow in unconditional love and in beauty is spirituality.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self-respect.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn’t die, patience, fearless mind, love, self- confidence, love for everybody.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Just open your eyes, shake your head, and look at what is happening in the world. It is amazing! This universe is amazing!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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When you are totally defenseless, that’s when you’ll be strong.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
We communicate much more through our presence than the words.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
For those who do not have faith in God, fear is a way to protect them. But if faith is strong, there is no anxiety about something in danger.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Don’t be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you’re not at peace, nothing else matters.
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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When there is a fountain of colors, they add charm to your life. In ignorance, emotions are a bother; in knowledge, the same emotions add colors.. enjoy the day with Wisdom!
– Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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