“Happiness 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.”

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.

You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.

If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.

Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.

Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.

May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.

Every night, contemplate: What good did I do today? How can I do better tomorrow?

Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.

Children, we should simplify our life’s needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.

If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.

Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.

The mind can also be an erogenous zone.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

It is worth noting that the notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labour.

The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true.