Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIHappiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
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Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?
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Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
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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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As you perform good actions selflessly, true love will blossom, which will purify our emotional mind.
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What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader, Let us become a real servant instead.
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We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study – ourselves.
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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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Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
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Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
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Just as the right hand comes to dress the wound on the left hand, we should see another person’s sorrows as our own and come to his or her aid.
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Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
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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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The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
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A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
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