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If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

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Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.
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Attachment Expression Freedom Past Worry
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
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Children Face Love Spiritual Strong
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
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Live Oneself Present Surrender
Amidst sorrows, the only thing that enlivens us is optimistic faith. Never lose that faith.
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Faith Lose Optimistic Sorrow
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
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Love Togetherness
God realization and self-realization are one and the same. God-realization is nothing but the ability and expansiveness of heart to love everything equally.
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Ability Equality God Heart Love Realize
Purify the mind through selfless service.
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Mindset Purity Service
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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Awareness Compassionate Conscious Constant Effort Patience Practice
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
There are millions and millions of people who are thrown in the midst of poverty and starvation. Animals don’t die of starvation, only human beings.
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Human People Poverty Starve
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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Creation Enemy Growth Learning Thankful Yourself
We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.
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Achievement Born Ego Goal Human Life Live Vision 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.
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Essence Goal Human Life Limitation Love Nature Togetherness True
Our educational system needs to give equal importance to the intellect and the heart.
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Education Equality Heart Importance Intellectual Need System
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
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Act Compassion Selfish Truth
Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.
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Difficult Knowledge Life Protection Spiritual

If we are not able to fix the Lord firmly in our hearts, even a lifetime of temple-going does not do us any good.

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