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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYIYou cannot predict when grace takes place; you can only wait. Relax.
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Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
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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.
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Spiritual love is without limits or boundaries. Worldly love is superficial and fluctuating.
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The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today’s educational system. That factor is spiritual values.
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The greatest tragedy in life is not death; the greatest tragedy takes place when our talents and capabilities are underutilized and allowed to rust while we are living.
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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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Happiness is within everyone, but we are not able to experience it because of our ego’s likes and dislikes.
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Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life.
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Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.
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Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind.
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The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.
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Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
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Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
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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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Love sustains everything.
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