Readings

I am reading a book "Celebrating Silence" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Art of Living founder and here are some of my favourite writings from the book.

"Normally you offer your anger freely and your smile rarely. In ignorance, anger is cheap and smile is costly. In knowledge, a smile is free like the sun, air and water, and anger is extremely expensive like a diamond. Make your smile cheaper and your anger expensive. "

"Joy is love for what is. Sorrow is love for what is not."

"How can you always be happy? Forget about "always" - then you will be happy.
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.
Fear arrises, when you don't realize that only life is for always. This projection of the nature of self - which is "always" - onto the temporal - which can never be "always" - is called maya."