Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Founder of Art of Living Foundation.

A contemporary spiritual leader known for founding the Art of Living Foundation, which focuses on personal well-being and global peace through meditation and service. His teachings blend ancient wisdom with practical tools for stress relief, emotional balance, and humanitarian work. He emphasizes the importance of spirituality in daily life and has been a proponent of interfaith dialogue and social initiatives aimed at fostering global harmony.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes about Silence

  • Take some time off to go within, in silence. With that, your charm becomes eternal, your love becomes unconditional & great strength arises.
  • 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'
  • To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.
  • The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.
  • Purpose of words is to create silence. Purpose of action is to bring deep rest. Purpose of deep rest is to bring you fulfillment. In fulfillment you find joy, bliss.
  • You are solidified silence, awareness. A thousand hours of speech cannot equal one glance: a hundred glances cannot equal a minute of silence.
  • Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.
  • Prayer within breath is silence, love within infinity is silence, Wisdom without word is silence, compassion without aim is silence, action without doer is silence, smiling with all existence is silence
  • Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!
  • Space and silence are synonymous. Joy, fulfillment brings the silence. Desire brings noise. Silence is the cure, because in silence you come back to the source, and that creates joy.