When you love someone you don’t see anything wrong in them. Even if you see some fault in them you justify the fault and say Well everyone does it, it is normal.
You think you have not done enough for them. The more you do, the more you want to do for them. They are always in your mind.
Ordinary things become extraordinary. For example: A baby winking at grandmother.
You want them to be yours exclusively.
When you love someone, you want to see them always happy and you want them to have the best.
You get hurt even over small things.
- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Conflict And Innocence
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: Fights can only happen among equals. When you fight with someone, you make them equal. But in reality there is no one at par with you. When you keep people either above or below you, then there is no fight. When they are above you, you respect them. When they are below you, you love them and you feel compassionate. Either submission or compassion can take you out of a fight in no time. This is one way to look at it when you are tired of fighting. When you are well rested, just fight and have fun.
The same is true of the mind. As long as the mind thinks it is equal to the senses, there is conflict. When it realizes that it is bigger than the senses, there is no conflict. And when the mind is smaller than the senses, like in animals, there is no conflict. When the mind is caught up in the senses, there is constant conflict. When it transcends the senses, it comes back to its true nature, which is innocence - in no sense.
Does this make sense? (Laughter)
People pretended that they were friends, when the fact was they were brought together by force of circumstances. The classroom or the club or the office created friendships. When the circumstances changed the relations too snapped.
~ RK Narayan, Bachelor of Arts
The source of your mind is love and whatever you do to go to that source is a spiritual practice.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you have total detachment then nothing but love comes from you.
~ Sri Sri