By Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar┃Posted: November 20, 2018

Life is a zoo!

Life is not a sheep yard or a cowshed, but a zoo. You find all types of people in life, not just others who are like you. The most intelligent, the most creative, and the dullest, hyperactive, or lazy ones are all here — whatever their behavior is, don’t worry about them. It is an exercise for you to enjoy all types of people. Everyone does their job.

3 Tips to deal with difficult relationships

1. Believe in the innate beauty and goodness. If you sit and talk to people, they are beautiful human beings. Everyone is a nice person.

2. Don’t fret on bringing quick change. To change someone’s perception or behavior, even your own, takes its own sweet time, so we shouldn’t worry about these things.

3. Opportunity for your own growth. Some are here to test your patience, so how patient could you be? Some are there to show you where your buttons are. All of life is like this exercise.

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Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a humanitarian and spiritual leader, an ambassador of peace and human values. Through his life and work, Gurudev has inspired millions around the world with a vision of a stress-free, violence-free world.  He has founded courses that provide techniques and tools to live a deeper, more joyous life and he has established nonprofit organizations that recognize a common human identity above the boundaries of race, nationality, and religion.