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Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

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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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Education Factor Society System Togetherness Value
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
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Confusion Despair Ego Pain Person Philosophy
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
Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.
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Each Other Human Peace Reality
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
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
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
Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
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Feeling God Prayer Yourself
Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.
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Ego Experience Happiness Ourselves
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
God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.
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God Heart Himself Stand
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
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
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Care Respect Value
One who goes after the taste of the tongue does not get to know the taste of the heart.
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Choice Heart Taste
Learn to be thankful to everyone, to the entire creation, even to your enemy and also to those who insult, because they all help you to grow.
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Creation Enemy Growth Learning Thankful Yourself
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.
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Flow God Grace Let Go
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
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
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Ego Human Nature Optimism Stop Suffering
Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.
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Art Effort Learning Relax Yourself
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
Children, meditation is not just sitting with our eyes closed. We should take every action as worship. We should be able to experience His presence everywhere.
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Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
When humanity serves Nature, Nature serves humanity. When we serve animals and plants, they too serve us in return.
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Animal Humanity Nature Plant Return Service
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
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Body Control Happiness Mental Weakness
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
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Angry Rough Word
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
When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.
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Life Live Nature People Sweet

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