While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIUnderstand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
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Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
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Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.
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Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
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Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
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Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
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Love sustains everything.
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Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
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Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
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If we have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.
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Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
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Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
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Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
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Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
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A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
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