Guru of Joy Quotes

“You accept food and music from every part of the world without reservation, don’t you? You don’t have to be Danish to eat Danish pastries or Italian to eat pasta and pizzas. You don’t have to be a German to enjoy Beethoven or an Indian to listen to sitar music. Why then, when it comes to wisdom, do we become so narrow-minded?”
― François Gautier, The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and The Art of Living

“Life without wisdom is incomplete, Wisdom that does not give rise to feelings is incomplete, Feeling that does not transfer into action is incomplete, Action that does not give rise to fulfillment is incomplete, Fulfillment is returning to self.”
― François Gautier, The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and The Art of Living

“Half the health we spend gaining our wealth,” he says, “and then spend half our wealth trying to gain back our health—this is not a very intelligent thing to do.”
― François Gautier, The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and The Art of Living

“An organization should be like a picture frame. The frame shouldn’t eat away the picture.” In other words, just as it isn’t possible to hold a picture in the absence of a frame, without an organization any work, whether spiritual or social, can’t happen. At the same time, if the organization becomes too bureaucratic, it’s like the frame eating the picture away.”
― François Gautier, The Guru of Joy: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and The Art of Living