Quotes from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Don't Fall in love, Rise in Love!

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

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

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

Even if you win in ego it is a loss. Even if you lose in love it is a victory.

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

The Path of Love is not a tedious Path. It's a Path of joy. It's a Path of singing and dancing. It's not a desert. It is a valley of flowers

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Worry is the enemy of love. You cannot be in love and be worried at the same time.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.

When the energy is high and when there is love, healing happens automatically!

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile.

Everywhere you see in creation there is Divine love. Love is the highest force, the greatest force, and the simplest

Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.

Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.

I tell you, deep inside you is a fountain of bliss, a fountain of joy. Deep inside your center core is truth, light, love, there is no guilt there, there is no fear there. Psychologists have never looked deep enough.

Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.

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.

Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom.