Top 300 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Healthy is being physically strong, mentally calm and steady and emotionally soft.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

52. “Some people are not swayed by pleasures and are committed and one-pointed, but if they lack patience and perseverance, they become restless and dejected.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

53. “Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life – this is what you are here for.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

54. “If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

57. “There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

58. “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.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

60. “Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

61. “In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

62. “When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

63. “Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

64. “Your love is unique. Let love remain love, don’t give it any name. The love that is defined by a relationship is limited. The love that is beyond relationships, that is true love.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

65. “Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

66. “The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

67. “A sign of intelligence is to see the One in many and find the many in One.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

68. “You should not delay the good things in life. Just do them. Whenever you get a chance to do spiritual practice or seva, don’t miss it. Those are the real precious moments of your life.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

69. “In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

70. “Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

71. “Ego is just a feeling of having a wall between you and others. There is no wall. You belong to me and I belong to you. You are accepted the way you are.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

72. “The bigger our vision for the world, the less personal worries we have.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

73. “Life is nothing to be very serious about. Life is a ball in your hands to play with. Don’t hold on to the ball.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

74. “Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

75. “To whatever degree we are alert, aware, to that degree we are living.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

76. “Never underestimate your life. It is most precious. You never know what talents are hidden within you and what you have to offer to the world!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

77. “Success means crossing a limit. To cross a limit you need to assume that you have a limit. Assuming a limit is underestimating yourself. If you have no boundaries then where is your success?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

78. “We need to do a cleansing process within ourselves. In sleep we get rid of fatigue, but the deeper stresses remain in our body. Sudarshan Kriya cleanses the system from the inside. The breath has a great secret to offer.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

79. “One whose mind is turned inwards is ever in bliss.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

80. “The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

81. “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

82. “Just an intention to be free makes you immediately free!”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

83. “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.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

84. “Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions – being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

85. “Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

86. “When you are totally defenseless, that’s when you’ll be strong.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

87. “Make other comfortable and you will see that nature will take care of your comfort.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

88. “Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

89. “Only the heart can speak or hear that which is authentic.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

91. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

92. “Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

93. “A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

94. “Much energy is wasted in trying to charm others. And in wanting to charm – I tell you, the opposite happens.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

95. “Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

96. “A mind in the present moment is meditation.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

98. “If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

99. “You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar