Srikumar Rao Quotes

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,' but being a good person, knowing your strengths and working towards those strengths, and encouraging those around you to do the same, that's a good person.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

Try to see the good in others. When you're tempted to judge someone, make an effort to see their goodness. Your willingness to look for the best in people will subconsciously bring it forth.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

This idea of bringing awareness to our lives seems like a good idea, right? We'll gain a productive, enjoyable, reflective life and be able to extend compassion, empathy, and joy to others. That seems like a pretty good deal.

I make sure I'm appreciative and can an encounter the world in a humble way.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I hope that whenever my daughter has a negative experience, I'm there to talk about it and remind her how we feel when it's done to her so that she doesn't do it to others.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.