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Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good deeds form the worship, good words form the hymns and love forms the offering.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Form God Heart Install Love Suffering Worship
A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won’t find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.
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Bliss Fragrance Happiness Ourselves Search Source
Talking high philosophy often confuses people, but a look from an egoless person can lift the clouds of pain and despair.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Confusion Despair Ego Pain Person Philosophy
“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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Gender God Man Question Woman
While eating, our attention should not be focused just on the taste. Imagine our chosen deity or guru is present within us and that we are feeding Him. This will turn eating into a spiritual practice.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Attention Eat Focus God Ourselves Practice Spiritual Taste
Love is the only medicine that can heal the wounds of the world.
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Healing Love Medicine World Wound
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
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Love Togetherness
Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Act Compassion Selfish Truth
Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Children Face Love Spiritual Strong
Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.
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Learning Nature Object Ourselves Teaching
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
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Book Learning Nature Object Page
Loving words and deeds are the best alms.
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Love Offering Word
The language of love is the language of humility or humbleness.
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Humble Humility Language Love
Purify the mind through selfless service.
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Mindset Purity Service
A person’s destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
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Change Destiny Person Power
Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Care Happiness Intelligence Mindset Object Practice Solitude
We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Consciousness Man Oneself Remember Universe
Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Ego Human Nature Optimism Stop Suffering
Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.
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Achievement Cry Misery Person Soul Tears World
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Control Harmony Mindset
When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Life Live Nature People Sweet
Couples should abstain from sexual relations at least 2 or 3 days a week. Gradually try to reach a stage of celibacy most days.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Couple Reach Sex Stage
Pray May all reach the shore of peace, spreading the sweet holy fragrance of Love and vibrations of unity and harmony.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Harmony Peace Prayer Reach Unity
Look carefully at what is of value in others and respect that.
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Care Respect Value
May your thoughts, words and actions arise from love.
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Action Love Thinking Word Yourself
There are thousands ready to die for their religion, but only are few willing to live by its principles. Because of their narrow vision and envy, they have missed the true essence and message of religion which is love and compassion.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Death Essence Jealous Live Message Religion True Vision Willing

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