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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIWhile 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.
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Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.
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Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.
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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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Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
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Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
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Look upon others as being part of yourself.
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If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
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Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
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The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
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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.
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Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
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Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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