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Animals too experience sorrow, love, anger and other emotions.

Mata Amritanandamayi

One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Choice Heart Taste
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
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
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Friendship God Reality Relative Religious Yourself
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Activity Expression Happiness Love True
Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Religious Sun Thinking
What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Happiness Herself Mom See
Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Cycle Death Form Human Purpose Reality Transcendence
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Change Forget Important
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Love Offering Word
Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Charity Food Nurture Ourselves Remember Service Soul
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
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Age Need Nourish Parents Spiritual Value Young
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
Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attitude Change Circumstance Control Important Ourselves
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

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