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.

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.

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?

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.

A Guru is there to show you what you are. You are not different from Me. Whatever I am, that is what you are.

Diwali means to be in the present, so drop the regrets of the past and the worries of the future and live in the moment. It is a time to forget the bickering and negativities that have happened through the year. It is a time when you throw light on the wisdom you have gained and welcome a new beginning.

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

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.

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself.

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma.

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.

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest

Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

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

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you.

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft

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.

Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky - limitless, infinite. From the bottom of the ocean soar into the vast sky