“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.”

Pray: O Lord, make my eyes see only the good in everyone.

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.

Whether we laugh or cry, the days are going to pass by. So why not choose to laugh?

If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.

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.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

Do no talk while eating.

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.

In most cases, worldly love ends in hatred and deep sorrow.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

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.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.

Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.

The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.

What makes Amma happy, is to see her children helping others to feel happy.

It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.

What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It’s really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

Cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.

Creative thinking – in terms of idea creativity – is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.

Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?