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If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Charity Children Save Simplify
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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Care Happiness Intelligence Mindset Object Practice Solitude
Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.
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Body Heart Love Purity Transcendence
Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.
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Cycle Death Form Human Purpose Reality Transcendence
Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.
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Alone Aware Beautiful Enough Foundation Fulfill Love Peace Togetherness
Don’t go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
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Empty Flower Hand Offering Surrender Symbol Temple
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
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Book Learning Nature Object Page
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
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Difficult Knowledge Life Protection Spiritual
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
May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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Action Love Thinking Word Yourself
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.
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Human People Poverty Starve
Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
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Belief Decision God Happiness Myself Strong
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
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Choice Heart Taste
Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life’s problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we’re looking for.
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Accuracy Face Intelligence Life Meditation Mental Strength Treasure
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
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Human Language Selfish
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.
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Hands Herself Right Wound

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

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