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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIGrace is openness. By remaining open, you let go of your ego and narrow-minded views, and allow divine grace to express itself through you.
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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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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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Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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“Is God a Man or a Woman ?” The answer to this question is neither God is That. But if you must give God a gender, God is more female than male, for he is contained in She.
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In God’s vision, no inside or outside exists. Still, in the beginning, Mother is asking all to meditate on Him in the heart, in order to achieve concentration.
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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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Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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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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Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
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One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift, and never waste such an opportunity.
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You cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
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What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind.
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We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
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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.
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Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.
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Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
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Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
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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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Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.
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We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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When someone is full of Love and Compassion, he cannot draw a line between two countries, two faiths or two religions.
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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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Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.
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God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.
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Each and every living being in nature is part of God’s body.
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