S Shankar Quotes

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

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

Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm - I tell you, the opposite happens ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia. ~ Lathish R. Shankar

Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Shiva is chidambaram, like the inner sky. Shiva is the inner sky of consciousness ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

We do yoga to make life more beautiful.. to stop misery from entering our world. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I enjoy seeing other Indian musicians - old and young - coming to Europe and America and having some success. I'm happy to have contributed to that. ~ Ravi Shankar

What path you choose is not important. How intensely you pursue that path is much more important ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A poor man celebrates the New Year once a year. A rich man celebrates each day. But the richest man celebrates every moment. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Reaction and non-action both create karma, but conscious action transcends karma. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

She was like a star in the sky and I would imagine how she could be mine ... ~ I.R. Shankar

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time! ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Knowledge of life brings confidence. Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Faith makes you stable and steady. It brings out the totality in you. Consolidation of your energy is faith. Dissemination of energy is doubt. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you wake up and see the whole creation is my valentine, the country is my valentine, the Divinity is my valentine, knowledge is my valentine then Valentine's Day will never end for you. All 365 days is Valentine's Day. That is how I feel - everyday is Valentine's Day ~ 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

When you wish # good for others, good things come back to you. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

My music has a very spiritual background, a sanctity that is almost like worship. ~ Ravi Shankar

TOLERANCE Neither accept people as they are nor tolerate them. Many people think tolerance is a virtue but tolerance is actually a negative term. If you like something, you do not have to tolerate it. Tolerance indicates a deep sense of dislike that can at any time turn into hatred. It indicates a sense of separateness, small-mindedness, a limitation of consciousness. When you tolerate, it is a temporary state. Tolerance is a potential volcano. If you are tolerating, it means you are just holding on. Acceptance is also negative. You accept that which is not lovable. Tolerance and acceptance come with judgment and separation. Question: "But aren't we supposed to accept people as they are?" If you do not love them, then you have to accept them. I tell you, do not accept people as they are. Just love them as they are. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you are totally defenseless, that's when you'll be strong. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In India, I have been called a 'destroyer.' But that is only because they mixed my identity as a performer and as a composer. As a composer I have tried everything, even electronic music and avant-garde. But as a performer I am, believe me, getting more classical and more orthodox, jealously protecting the heritage that I have learned. ~ Ravi Shankar

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I went my whole life without winning anything and now all of a sudden after years of hard work my dreams were coming true all at once and I didn't know how to deal with it. It felt like the world was changing its relationship with me but I had stayed the same. ~ Adi Shankar

I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan. ~ Serj Tankian

You have nothing to lose. All that you can lose is your tension and your worry, your little-mindedness, fear, and anxiety. And fear and anxiety, tension and worry in the small, little mind will keep the mind from being free, will keep the mind from experiencing its infinite potential, will keep the mind from becoming more powerful on this planet. ~ 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

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. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Our words are there to bless people and bring peace to the world ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you would like to stop hating someone or something, just stop blaming and the hate will disappear and turn into liking or love. ~ Vijay Shankar Sharma

Pleasure simply brings more craving, but the problem is that we try to get contentment through pleasure. True contentment can only come through service. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A mind in the present moment is meditation. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar