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Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.

Mata Amritanandamayi

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
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Forgiveness Point See Yourself
The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
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Education Factor Society System Togetherness Value
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
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Human Language Selfish
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
Have the conviction that God is your only real relative and friend.
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Friendship God Reality Relative Religious Yourself
Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.
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Material Pursuit Sacrifice Society Value
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.
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Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.
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Blessing Happiness Life Soul
The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.
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Allow Death Greatness Life Live Place Tragedy
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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Hands Herself Right Wound
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
Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
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Eyes God Goodness Myself See Sight
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
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Book Learning Nature Object Page
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
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Achievement Born Ego Goal Human Life Live Vision World
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
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Accomplishment Action Death Greatness Performance Right
Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.
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Circumstance Content Mindset Peace Prayer
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
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
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Control Harmony Mindset
Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
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Boundary Limitation Love Spiritual World
Do no talk while eating.
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Eat One Liner Talk
Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.
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Meaning Money Opportunity Society
Children should observe a regular schedule for sleeping and waking up.
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Children Observation Sleep Wake Up
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Care Respect Value
When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one’s thoughts and actions.
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Action Quality Reflection Spiritual Thinking True
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.
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Identify Problem Thinking Yourself
A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
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Bliss Fragrance Happiness Ourselves Search Source

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