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.

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

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 meditation

You should be dynamic, and still be soft in the heart. _x000D_ You should stand against injustice and simultaneously, be compassionate within you, like a saint. _x000D_ Be a saint and a soldier, together

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.

How do we get out of our small mind? When we enquire into the core of our existence. What is life? Who am I? This spirit of self-inquiry can awaken something inside you.

Talk less, but with more awareness. Every word you use, use purposefully.

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.

Navratri represents how the negativity can be conquered by the inherent positive qualities in us.

Joy is never tomorrow it's always now!

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

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.

Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us - Devi Shakti

Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.

How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.

You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.

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