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A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
The beauty and charm of selfless love and service should not die away from the face of this earth. The world should know that a life of dedication is possible, that a life inspired by love and service to humanity is possible.
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Beautiful Charm Death Dedication Humanity Possible Service
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
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Awareness Compassionate Conscious Constant Effort Patience Practice
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
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Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Identify Problem Thinking Yourself
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Attitude Discrimination Right Understand Yourself
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
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Live Oneself Present Surrender
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
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Couple Reach Sex Stage
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
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Age Need Nourish Parents Spiritual Value Young
The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
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Different Ourselves People Reflection Shine Sun
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.
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Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person’s sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Hands Herself Right Wound
Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Heart Love Purity Transcendence
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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Achievement Existence God Mom Meditation Order Vision
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.
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Flow God Grace Let Go
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Cry Equality God Oneself

A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

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A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.

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