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

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Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
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Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.
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Love Patience Yourself
Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.
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Attitude Change Circumstance Control Important Ourselves
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Absence Feeling Love Negative Reality
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.
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Division Intellectual Scissor Unity
Children, everyone should try to wake up before five in the morning. The ideal time for spiritual practices like meditation and chanting is Brahma Muhurta. During this period, sattvic qualities are predominant in nature. Moreover, the mind will be clear and body energetic.
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Children Meditation Morning Quality Wake Up Willing
Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
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Charity Children Save Simplify
A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, ‘I am everyone’s servant.’ Then the whole universe will bow down to us.
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Attitude Bow Bury Destroy Emerge Form Ourselves Reality Universe
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
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Love Togetherness
Love sustains everything.
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Love One Liner
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
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Greatness Happiness Infinite Ourselves Reflection Truth Understand
Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
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Alone Education Life Live
You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
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Grace Place Prediction Yourself
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
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Art Effort Learning Relax Yourself
In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
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End Hate Love Sorrow World
No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.
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Focus Love Oneself Patience Purity Selfless Time
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.
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Body Food Health Mindset Necessary Sleep Spiritual
The more intellectual you are, the more egoistic you are, and surrendering becomes more difficult.
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Difficult Ego Intellectual Surrender Yourself
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.
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Flow God Grace Let Go
Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.
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Attitude Beauty Service Society
Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.
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Life Ourselves People World
Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life’s problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we’re looking for.
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Accuracy Face Intelligence Life Meditation Mental Strength Treasure
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.
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Achievement Cry Misery Person Soul Tears World
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
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Body Change Forget Important
You can only feel love by expressing it.
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Expression Feeling Love Yourself
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Act Compassion Selfish Truth

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