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Purify the mind through selfless service.

Mata Amritanandamayi

What the world needs are servants, not leaders. Everyone’s wish is to become a leader, Let us become a real servant instead.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Leadership Need Service World
Grace 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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Divine Ego Expression Grace Let Go Open Remain 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
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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Help Important Ourselves Responsibility
Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.
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Identify Problem Thinking Yourself
Those that have an attitude of service towards others are the beauty of society.
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Attitude Beauty Service Society
Love is our true nature. When we do not express love in our words and actions it is like honey hidden in a rock.
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Action Expression Hide Love Nature Rock True
Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.
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Healing Love Medicine World Wound
Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.
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Charity Food Nurture Ourselves Remember Service Soul
Meditation increases our vitality and strengthens our intelligence. Our beauty is enhanced and our mental accuracy and health are improved. We gain the mental fortitude and patience to face life’s problems. Meditate! Only through meditation can we find the treasure we’re looking for.
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Accuracy Face Intelligence Life Meditation Mental Strength Treasure
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.
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Cry Equality God Oneself
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
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
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Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
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
Purify the mind through selfless service.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Mindset Purity Service
You can only feel love by expressing it.
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Expression Feeling Love Yourself
Our circumstances will continually change. It is out of our control. It is more important to change our attitude, which we have control of.
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Attitude Change Circumstance Control Important Ourselves
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
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Body Control Happiness Mental Weakness
Be like the honeybee who gathers only nectar wherever it goes. Seek the goodness that is found in everyone.
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Goodness Kindness Seek
If we keep holding on to God, there is nothing to fear.
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Fear God Hold
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
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
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
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Effort Hate Ourselves Removal
If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Love Patience Yourself
When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Life Live Nature People Sweet
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Awareness Compassionate Conscious Constant Effort Patience Practice
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity

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