Don’t be feverish about a relationship, just relax and you will find your relationship with people will improve and become better. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

People seeking happiness will have to come to the Guru. People seeking knowledge and a better quality of life will have to come to the Guru. They have to acknowledge the Guru Principle in their life. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

More decisions you make, the more confused you are, and as a result you swing between pain and pleasure. More the witness grows, you will become more playful and untouched. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Shiva is the eternal tattva (principle) that is the essence of everything. It is the principle from which everything has come, which sustains everything and in which everything dissolves. - Gurudev @SriSri #MahaShivaratri #WisdomCookies

The sattvic intellect is one that just does the job joyfully and is unmindful of the results. Let things happen or not happen - either way they don't lose their enthusiasm. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Faith is not that which can come to an end, this is the first thing. Every time your faith shakes, your devotion will be renewed from within once again. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Know that the highest flowering in life is being in love and acting through love. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Worldly love can be like an ocean, yet an ocean has a bottom. Divine love is like the sky which is limitless. From the bottom of the ocean, soar into the vast sky. - Gurudev @SriSri #ValentinesDay #WisdomCookies

In every person if we see the element of Divinity and Love, then we will see the oneness in everybody around us, for they have come from the same God. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

What is done for survival or safety is not called violence. Violence is the act done with a negative emotion like: anger, jealousy, hatred, greed, arrogance, etc. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Don’t let politics sway you away from the path. If you are afraid of politics you cannot be successful in the spiritual realm. You have to cross the barricade of politics. It is the test of your strength, commitment, and your focus. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Observe that there is something much more than your 'doership'. It is like a vast ocean. Life is not just in your body. It is between you and me and everybody else. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

The goal of education is to increase awareness not information. Watching our inner-responses, knowing that they are there, increases our self-awareness. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Don’t imagine a situation where you’ll become super rich one day & then you will start doing some seva, no, nothing like that. You can feel abundance at any point of time. And the moment you start feeling abundance, you will see things will get better. - @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Every pain that you undergo in this process is for higher growth. A seed 'has pain' to sprout and a sprout 'has pain' to become bigger. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

We are attention hungry. This is a habit we need to change. Why are we like this? It is because we don't attend to ourselves. We are not aware of the light inside us; we are not aware of the peace inside us. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

A successful person is one who has tasted the joy of giving and goes on giving. This is a sign of success. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Just be yourself. Be natural and be simple. Relationships develop naturally. If you try to build a relationship that is when you become a little artificial. Then your behavior becomes artificial which is not natural. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

Don’t sit and day dream and only think about miracles to happen. Miracles do happen, but if you crave for miracles then they will take a back seat. Nature wants you to be dynamic. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies

When there is sweetness in the heart and in your voice, then everyone will belong to you and you will see that no one appears a stranger to you. - Gurudev @SriSri #WisdomCookies