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True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Himself Meditation Presence Worship
The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Division Intellectual Scissor Unity
Don’t get angry. Try not to speak roughly or use harsh words.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Angry Rough Word
Real love is the complete absence of any negative feelings towards anyone.
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Absence Feeling Love Negative Reality
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Animal Attitude Food God
Education for livelihood alone will never make our life full and complete.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Alone Education Life Live
It is man who, through his thoughts and actions, creates turmoil and disintegration in the natural, harmonious unity of the world.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Harmony Man Thinking World
Love is our true essence. Love has no limitations of caste, religion, race, or nationality. We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love. To awaken this unity-and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature-is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Essence Goal Human Life Limitation Love Nature Togetherness True
Happiness depends on how you accept, understand and surrender to situations.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Accept Happiness Situation Surrender Understand Yourself
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Attitude Discrimination Right Understand Yourself
Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Grace Help Humble Thankful Yourself
Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Empty Flower Hand Offering Surrender Symbol Temple
Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Education Equality Heart Importance Intellectual Need System
Make a firm decision: ‘Whatever happens, I will be happy. I will be strong. God is always with me.’
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Belief Decision God Happiness Myself Strong

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