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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

Keep the child within alive. A child never tires of hearing the birds sing, never gets bored looking at flowers.
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Alive Boredom Children Flower
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
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Angry Rough Word
May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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Action Love Thinking Word 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
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
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Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity
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
When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.
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Life Live Nature People Sweet
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
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
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
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
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Love Offering Word
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
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
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
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Absence Feeling Love Negative Reality

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