God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIOur educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
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Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
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Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.
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Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
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Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
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Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.
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The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
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Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.
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Grace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.
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Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
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Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.
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The change will only happen outside once we change within ourselves.
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In God’s vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.
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If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.
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Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
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Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.
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May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
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What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
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Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
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Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
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We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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You can only feel love by expressing it.
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Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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