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Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life’s problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we’re looking for.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Accuracy Face Intelligence Life Meditation Mental Strength Treasure
Parents need to nourish spiritual values in their children from a very young age.
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Age Need Nourish Parents Spiritual Value Young
Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.
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Expectation Heaven Love Need Search
Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Eyes God Goodness Myself See Sight
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Expectation Flower Service Throw
If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Goodness Heart Life Time
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
Don’t go empty handed when going to a temple or to see a spiritual master. Offer something as a symbol of surrender, even if it be a mere flower.
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Empty Flower Hand Offering Surrender Symbol Temple
Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Food Health Mindset Necessary Sleep Spiritual
Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.
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Faith Heart Lost Mindset People Reason Spoil
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Form God Heart Install Love Suffering Worship
We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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Dominant Ego Live World
Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.
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Healing Love Medicine World Wound
While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
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Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.
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Best Ourselves Suffering Try
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

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

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