ON THE PATH TO ALL-ROUND IMPROVEMENT
For those on the spiritual, self improvement/awareness path
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Ambition indicates a lack of self-confidence. When you know you can achieve something easily, you will not be amtitious; you will simply be confident about it. Your ambition indicates challenge and uncertainty, which is contrary to selfconfidence. So one who has total self-confidence cannot be ambitious, nor can a person who … Read more
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Why do people hunger for power?People crave power because they want attention and recognition. Power is a means, just like money. Their passion is for the goal. People who see power or money as an end in itself do not live, they simply exist. If you do not realize that you … Read more
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Your body is like a washing machine, your mind is like your clothing, each lifetime is like one washing cycle, pure water is like love, and knowledge is like detergent. The mind enters the body to get cleansed and purified. But if instead of detergent you use dirt, then you have … Read more
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Do not tell a person about a mistake he knows that he made. What is the use of pointing out a mistake that he knows he has committed? By doing this, you will only make that person feel more guilty, defensive, or resentful and this only creates more distance. And do … Read more
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those persons who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, … Read more
Paramhansa Yogananda So long as you have any desire to dominate other people, or to show them how powerful you are spiritually or in any other way, you will not find soul freedom. God-awareness begins in humbleness, love, and meditative bliss; but with the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew … Read more
