Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIToday, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.
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By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.
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Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.
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Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
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Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?
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Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
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Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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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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Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.
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Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
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We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
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Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
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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.
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Purify the mind through selfless service.
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We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
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Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
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