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Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.

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Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
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God Religious Sun Thinking
Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.
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Action Expression Hide Love Nature Rock True
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
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Education Ourselves Study Wonder
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
Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.
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Meaning Money Opportunity Society
Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?
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Better Goodness Night Tomorrow
We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
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Consciousness Man Oneself Remember Universe
Today, 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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Destroy Food Nature Selfish Temporary Water
True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
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Activity Expression Happiness Love True
The guru is not someone who is confined to the body. When there is selfless love for the guru, we will be able to see him not only in his body but in every living and nonliving thing in this world. Learn to see everything as the guru’s body and to serve them accordingly.
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Body Himself Learning Love See Teacher
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.
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Curse Despair Happiness Light Oneself Small Try
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
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Change Destiny Person Power
Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.
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Aware Bondage Enough Freedom
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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Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.
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Born Experience Human Love Purity Search
God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.
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God Heart Himself Stand
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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Help Important Ourselves Responsibility
Don’t be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
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Capacity Darkness Inspirational Kindness Worth Yourself
Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.
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Alone Aware Beautiful Enough Foundation Fulfill Love Peace Togetherness
Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.
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Charity Children Save Simplify
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.
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Achievement Existence God Mom Meditation Order Vision
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
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Fear God Hold
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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Form God Heart Install Love Suffering Worship
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.
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Human People Poverty Starve
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
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Greatness Past Sage Satisfaction Spirituality Yourself
Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.
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See Thinking Travel Way Yourself
The first step in spiritual life is to have compassion. A person who is kind and loving never needs to go searching for God. God rushes toward any heart that beats with compassion-it is God’s favorite place.
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Compassion Heart Life Place Spiritual

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