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If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Nowadays everybody wants to become a leader. No one wants to become a servant. In reality, the world is badly in need of servants, not leaders. A real servant is a real leader.
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Leadership Oneself Reality Servant
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.
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Division Intellectual Scissor Unity
If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Meditation Prayer Recite Yourself
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
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
Controlling the mind is the way to attain internal harmony.
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Control Harmony Mindset
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
Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings.
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Help Important Ourselves Responsibility
If you have patience, then you’ll also have love. Patience leads to love.
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Love Patience Yourself
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 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
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
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Expectation Flower Service Throw
Any action done with the right attitude, understanding and discrimination will take you closer to liberation. If however, the same action is done without the right attitude, it will bind you.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Action Attitude Discrimination Right Understand Yourself
We are all beads strung together on the same thread of love.
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Love Togetherness
To awaken spiritual unity, and to spread to others the love that is our inherent nature, is the true goal of human life.
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Awake Human Life Love Nature Spiritual Unity
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
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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Development Expression Fear Life Person Reality Soul Understand
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Exercise Intellectual Meditation Peace
If we let go of our likes and dislikes, we will become fit vessels to receive the God’s ever flowing grace.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Flow God Grace Let Go
We live in a calculative world and have a calculative mind, and in such a world, ego dominates.
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Dominant Ego Live World
You can only feel love by expressing it.
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Expression Feeling Love Yourself
Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.
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Greatness Past Sage Satisfaction Spirituality Yourself
Do no talk while eating.
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Eat One Liner Talk
Everything is God, there is nothing else but God.
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God Spiritual Universe
Be content and happy with whatever comes to you.
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Acceptance Happiness Life Yourself
The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change.
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Body Change Forget Important
Surrender and living in the present are one and the same.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Live Oneself Present Surrender

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