Quotes from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

When the mind is free of fear, guilt, anger and is more centered, then it holds the power to heal any ailment.

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

Your non attachment to the mundane is your charm. Your attachment to the divine is your beauty.

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize 'Who You Are', to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is 'You'

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.

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication.

The positive aspect of competition in a business scenario is it helps you to be more alert and innovative.

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

If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.

Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy

You should have desires, but the desires should not have you.

Hold on to your dreams, one day, it will come true.

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

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.

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.

Foolishness is giving up without any effort or not giving up after putting in all your effort. Secret of freedom is putting all your effort and giving up!

Human rights means protecting another's freedom, seeing that the other person is also like oneself. Human rights is giving others security, letting them live.