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Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Grace Help Humble Thankful Yourself
Try to make others happy, and don’t despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Curse Despair Happiness Light Oneself Small Try
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one’s thoughts and actions.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Quality Reflection Spiritual Thinking True
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity
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
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Angry Rough Word
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Animal Humanity Nature Plant Return Service
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Help Important Ourselves Responsibility
Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Belief Decision God Happiness Myself Strong
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Essence Goal Human Life Limitation Love Nature Togetherness True
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
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
Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Cry Equality God Oneself

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