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True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Form God Heart Install Love Suffering Worship
Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Compassion Feeling Pain Suffering
What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Control Mindset Ourselves Peace
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Human People Poverty Starve
The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God’s favorite place.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Compassion Heart Life Place Spiritual
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun – the giver of light.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Light Offering People Sun Thinking
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Focus Love Oneself Patience Purity Selfless Time
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Book Learning Nature Object Page
Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Accept Happiness Situation Surrender Understand Yourself
Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Better Goodness Night Tomorrow
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Confusion Despair Ego Pain Person Philosophy
Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Eyes God Goodness Myself See Sight
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Destroy Food Nature Selfish Temporary Water
Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Anger Animal Emotion Experience Love Sorrow
Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Harmony Peace Prayer Reach Unity
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

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