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No one becomes pure and selfless overnight; it involves time and concentrated effort, coupled with tremendous patience and love.

Mata Amritanandamayi

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.
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Activity Expression Happiness Love True
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
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Greatness Happiness Infinite Ourselves Reflection Truth Understand
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
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
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
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Couple Reach Sex Stage
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
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
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
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Ability Difference Knowledge True
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.
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Body Exercise Heart Suffering
In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
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End Hate Love Sorrow World
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
Love is the very foundation, beauty and fulfillment of life. If we dive deep enough into ourselves, we will find that the one thread of universal love ties all beings together. As this awareness dawns within us, peace alone will reign.
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Alone Aware Beautiful Enough Foundation Fulfill Love Peace Togetherness
May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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Action Love Thinking Word Yourself
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
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Change Destiny Person Power
If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.
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Meditation Prayer Recite Yourself
Real life is developed from within. Real living means that the soul expresses itself through all one’s thoughts, words and actions. A person becomes fearless once he understands the nature of the imperishable soul.
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Development Expression Fear Life Person Reality Soul Understand

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