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Transcending the cycle of death and rebirth is the real purpose of this life in human form.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
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Live Oneself Present Surrender
Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
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Learning Place Service Suffering
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
God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
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Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
Pure love makes you feel as light as a flower. You won’t feel any heaviness or burden. Ego creates the burden.
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Burden Creation Feeling Flower heavy Light Love Yourself
Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?
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Choice Cry Laughter Time
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Absence Feeling Love Negative Reality
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
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Forgiveness Point See Yourself
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Control Harmony Mindset
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
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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Leadership Need Service World
Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
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Eyes God Goodness Myself See Sight
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 have some pet animals, we should feed them also before taking our food. Perceive God in every living being and feed them with that attitude.
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Animal Attitude Food God
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
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
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Expectation Flower Service Throw
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
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
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
In today’s world, human beings are dying and human machines are taking birth.
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Death Human Machine World
Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.
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Experience See Touch World
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.
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Care Happiness Intelligence Mindset Object Practice Solitude
What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
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Control Mindset Ourselves Peace
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
By living in harmony with Nature one gains a healthy mind and body.
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Body Harmony Health Live Mind Nature
Being aware of the bondage is enough to free you from its clutches.
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Aware Bondage Enough Freedom
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

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