- published: 02 Oct 2012
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The Art of Living Foundation is a volunteer-based, humanitarian and educational non-governmental organization (NGO). It was founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar with the vision of creating a stress-free, violence-free society. It says it has reached out to over 300 million people in over 150 countries with its various programs.
The Foundation is working in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations. The International Association for Human Values is the sister NGO that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar founded, that focuses on the upliftment of human values at the grass roots level.
Art of Living Foundation (AOLF) has its international headquarters in Bangalore, India at Ved Vignan Mahavidyapeeth or VVM campus (usually referred to as the Art of Living's international facility in Bangalore, or as the Bangalore Ashram)and has regional centers in more than 150 countries. In Europe, the organization is known as the Association for Inner Growth. The Foundation was founded by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and offers a variety of personal-development and trauma-relief programs around the world.
I never thought that you would go this far
And I know why you went home
We tried to fix the dreams we burned to the ground
Why you left
I'll never know
You went and got yourself destroyed
You always told me what it feels like
To never have things right
What it feels like to always be alone
You said that I'm not like the rest
I said I'm in over in my head
If you don't let you in
You'll always be alone
I felt so sorry for the mess we caused
Those little lies that'd grown inside
And every time that I believed every lie
I lost a friend
A piece of mind
You went and got yourself destroyed
You always told me what it feels like
To never have things right
What it feels like to always be alone
You said that I'm not like the rest
I said I'm in over in my head
If you don't let you in
You'll always be alone
All I did was call you up
And help you get through this
Shut me down, drown me out
There's no way I can do this
I feel like running
Why did it have to come to this?
I bet you thought
It would never be easy
But I cut you off
All you have left is what you took from me
What you took from me
You went and got yourself destroyed over me
You went and got yourself destroyed
You always told me what it feels like
To never have things right
What it feels like to always be alone
You said that I'm not like the rest
I said I'm in over in my head
If you don't let you in
You'll always be alone