110+ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes On Happiness, Meditation And Silence

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation, which offers programs and services in over 150 countries. He is a humanitarian and peace ambassador, advocating for the end of violence and promoting a stress-free, violence-free society. He is also a spiritual teacher, offering yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques to help people lead a more peaceful and meaningful life. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on happiness, life, meditation.

Top 10 Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes

1. Today is a gift from God - that is why it is called the present.
2. Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind.
3. Love is giving everything and taking nothing
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
7. Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
8. Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.
9. Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
10. A child does not try to know the mother, it simply has faith in her. In the same way, having faith in the Divine is the source of the greatest strength.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Image Quotes

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love is giving everything and taking nothing — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Short Quotes

• If you see long term benefit in doing something, but short term pain then you should do it.
• There is freedom when you realize that you are just a witness to all that is happening.
• Events bring you small joy, while #‎ existence brings you bliss.
• When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga
• The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind.
• Get out of your comfort zone and bring comfort to others.
• Be ready to face the worst. This will leave you with stability in your mind.
• How far to heaven? Just open your eyes and look. You are in heaven.
• Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula.
• Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Happiness

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

You sell your happiness for peanuts! You sell your smile for pennies! I tell you, it's not worth it. The entire world is not worth your smile. Even if you are made the king or the emperor of the world, it's not worth giving away your smile. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

If you're saddened by another's sorrow, then sorrow will never come to you. If you are happy at another's joy then joy will never leave you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Being unconditionally happy is a practice: "Come what may, today I'm going to smile. Anyway, everything is going to die! Everything is going to vanish and disappear-so what! Who cares! Let me at least be happy, smile this moment, enjoy my very breath." — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Keeping the mind happy makes work effortless. This is the skill for productivity! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Don't postpone your happiness until some perfect future date. Be happy now, tomorrow will take care of itself. — Sri Sri Ravi 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

I have received and I want to give. This is the path to happiness and contentment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The rush to enjoy robs the joy from life and only denies the happiness and freedom of here and now. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Life

To love someone whom you like is insignificant. To love someone because they love you is of no consequence. To love someone whom you do not like means you have learned a lesson in life. To love someone who blames you for no reason shows that you have learned the art of living. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Whatever you put attention on will start manifesting in your life. Intention, attention, manifestation; that is how the universe works. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Life is a combination of destiny and free will. Rain is destiny; whether you get wet or not is free will! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Accept people and situations as they are in life and then take action. The moment you do this, you'll see you are out of the confusion about anything in life. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Life teaches you the art of letting go in every event. When you have learnt to let go, you will be joyful and as you start being joyful, more will be given to you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Our breath plays a very important role in our life. The breath is the connecting link between the inner world of the mind and the outer world of the body and environment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Meditation

Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

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

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

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

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Love

If you are unhappy, even the moon irritates you, sweet things nauseate, music disturbs. When you are calm and centered inside, noise is musical, clouds are magical, rain is liquid love. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you - remember me. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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 — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different. — 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

Nature loves you ten times more than a mother loves her newborn. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Silence

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' — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

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

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 — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Peace

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Peace is the first step to equip yourself to face problems. Once you find the peace and the inner strength, then you can face any problem. It won’t even appear as a problem then. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In joy, in peace, in that soothing inner state, you will find happiness. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you're not at peace, nothing else matters — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Yoga takes you close to your true nature. Yoga with its techniques helps you to harmonize with nature. Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

It is the inner peace that can bring peace in our family, in society and ultimately, in the world. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Success

A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

One who can learn to flow with the current as well as manage the current is the successful one. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Keeping the mind open to new ideas, not being too anxious about success, putting 100% effort and meditation is the formula for entrepreneurs. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Do not be feverish about success, if your aim is clear and you have patience to move towards it, nature will support you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For success in life you need yukti (skill) and shakti (strength), Bhakti (Devotion ) and Mukti (Freedom). — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Smile

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Make your smile cheaper and anger expensive! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The visible sign of utter love is an undying smile. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Inspiring

Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Recognize and honour your uniqueness. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I never intended to start a new organisation but to share what I knew. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes About Children

A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Charity should be self-sustainable. That is, it should create more wealth rather than perpetuating the cycle of poverty and dependence. In this sense, the best form of charity would be providing quality education for children and more importantly, building a good character in them. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love combined with wisdom is bliss, and that is devotion. Devotion is a strong bond, a sense of belongingness. Everybody is born with it. It’s just like becoming a child again — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Famous Quotes And Sayings

Lord Shiva is seated deep in everyone’s heart. He is Nirguna (One who is without form or its attributes). He is Nirakaar (Has no shape or form), and He is the Para-Brahman (Supreme transcendental Consciousness) that is all pervading. Believe in this. This is Rudra Puja — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Love is giving everything and taking nothing — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Do not try to correct the mind. Trying to correct the mind is like trying to correct the waves in the ocean. Can you stop the waves in the ocean? If you want to see an ocean without waves you only have to dive deeper. When you dive deep inside you will experience the stillness of the ocean. And if it is all frozen that is enlightenment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Know that humiliation does not weaken you, it strengthens you. The more egoistic you are, the more humiliation you feel. When you are childlike and have a greater sense of kinship, you do not feel humiliated. When you are steeped in love with the Existence, with the Divine, nothing whatsoever can humiliate you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Devi energy (shakti) is there within all of us. Devi is not somewhere else, not in some other world. It is within us - Devi Shakti — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

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

If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us. — 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

The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing, and jump up and down happily, that is true prayer, that is true meditation. Meditation is a fountain of joy, an ecstasy; and Divine enjoys that more. Divine is not fond of your suffering. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Acceptance does not mean inaction; acceptance is actually acknowledging the present situation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

The role of women in the development of society is of utmost importance. In fact, it is the only thing that determines whether a society is strong and harmonious, or otherwise. Women are the backbone of society. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Knowledge is a burden if it robs you of innocence. Knowledge is a burden if it is not integrated into life. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't bring joy. Knowledge is a burden if it gives you an idea that you are wise. Knowledge is a burden if it doesn't set you free. Knowledge is a burden if it makes you feel you are special. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you can win over your mind, you can win over the whole world. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

The knowledge that unites love and wisdom, that uplifts the spirit is spirituality. The knowledge which gives you a broad vision and a big heart is spirituality. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source, is spiritual practice. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A goal or cause in life, will help you come out of your hunger for insatiable desires. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Have respect for yourself and no one can take away your self respect. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The entire universe is one whole, when you drop holding on to your limited boundaries, then what you gain is the entire universe. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a deep resonance in our consciousness, because our consciousness is very ancient — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Your worries, your feelings, your thoughts arise in your own mind. You are totally responsible for all your feelings - how you feel, what you think, what you do... You are responsible. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you judge others, look at yourself - You too have flaws and the divine nature has accepted you with all your flaws. It doesn't judge you. Who are you to judge? — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

A Presence is in control of the whole Universe. You just do your part and relax! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it. In that very memory your entire Being gets back to that state — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Religion keeps society divided. Spirituality unites it. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When the energy is high and when there is love, healing happens automatically! — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

In always wanting to be comfortable, you become lazy. In always wanting perfection, you become angry. In always wanting to be rich, you become greedy. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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

Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Life Lessons by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

1. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar emphasizes the importance of inner peace and spiritual wellbeing as the foundation for a more harmonious and compassionate world.
2. He encourages us to develop our own spiritual practice and to cultivate a sense of connectedness with the world around us.
3. He also encourages us to practice forgiveness, kindness, and understanding in order to create a more peaceful and loving world.