"The Buddhist teaching of the oneness of life and its environment tells us that humanity and the natural world are one. That is why if we wish to protect the environment, we must transform and purify the three poisons—greed, anger and foolishness—that exist in people’s lives. The principle of human revolution focuses on precisely that: inner transformation at the most fundamental level."
You know how you go to the gym and lift weights to work on your biceps or thighs? When you meditate, you actually work on strengthening the front parts of your brain. You’re getting the parts of your brain to talk to each other and communicate better. It increases your ability to concentrate when there is a lot of noise around.
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"Usually We become unhappy about things that are happenning, why it is happenning, why so and so is like this. You have no control on what is happenning, by others or in situation, you have control on what you can do or what you are doing. If you stop trying to control what is happenning and have a say in what you are doing, then you become much more stronger, effective, powerful, successful and happier"
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"A violence-free society, a stress-free mind, a disease-free body, an inhibition-free intellect, a trauma-free memory and a sorrow-free soul is the birthright of every human being. We should dream of this big dream, and make it possible"
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity"
— Daisaku Ikeda
"All the problems that you face in life are because you attach over importance to the events. The events grow bigger while you remain smaller"
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Love is sharing. love is expansion. You can’t help it, you must love because you want to expand. And nature of life is to expand. But we have learned and cultured all our habits to restrain ourselves and that is why the Divine Love is not manifesting in our life fully"
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
"Keep moving forward, even one or two steps, in your own way. Those who live out their lives to the fullest, unperturbed by the noisy clamor around them, are the true winners"
— Dasaku Ikeda
"If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life has an astonishing way of taking care of you, because then there is no taking care on your part."
— Jiddu Krishnamurti