12 Gurudev Quotes on Yoga & Meditation

These Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar quotes on yoga and meditation underline their transformative power in achieving inner peace.

Peace is our very nature, and yoga leads you to inner peace.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

We all want happiness, and yoga is the way for that much needed happiness factor in life. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Caring, sharing, and responsibility are the characters that yoga simply nurtures inside of you.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Yoga is not just an exercise, it is how skillfully you can communicate, and how skillfully you can act in any given situation.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Whether it is greed, jealousy, anger, hatred, or frustration, all these negative emotions can be healed or re-oriented through yoga.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation makes you sharper, happier, and intuitive.  Don’t you want intuition?  Don’t you want the right thought to come to you at the right time?  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation means seeing God within you, and love is seeing God in the person next to you.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness,  from a limited identity to unlimited space.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation is not ‘going somewhere;’ it’s diving deep here, this moment. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Silence is bringing you back home, and it gives you that much needed energy to realize ‘Who You Are’, to realize that there is bliss, there is beauty, there is joy, and that is ‘You’.  – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar