“May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.”

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

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.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

Do no talk while eating.

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.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you’ve got everything and you’re still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.