“The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.”

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.

Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.

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

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

I’m an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

The problem is, your ego sometimes tells you that you can do many things. But sometimes it’s best to stay focused and be honest with yourself.

Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?