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Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Mata Amritanandamayi

Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Burden Creation Feeling Flower heavy Light Love Yourself
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Ability Difference Knowledge True
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Difficult Knowledge Life Protection Spiritual
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
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Change Destiny Person Power
The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Allow Death Greatness Life Live Place Tragedy
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
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Couple Reach Sex Stage
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Boundary Limitation Love Spiritual World
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Ego Human Nature Optimism Stop Suffering
Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one’s thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Development Expression Fear Life Person Reality Soul Understand
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Control Happiness Mental Weakness
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Choice Heart Taste
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Expectation Flower Service Throw
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Live Oneself Present Surrender

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