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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.

Mata Amritanandamayi

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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Bliss Fragrance Happiness Ourselves Search Source
Understand this great truth: The happiness that comes from the pleasures of the world is but a minute reflection of the infinite bliss that comes from within your own Self.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Greatness Happiness Infinite Ourselves Reflection Truth Understand
The indicator of true knowledge is the ability to differentiate what uplifts us from what pulls us down.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Ability Difference Knowledge True
Traveling by bus, we see many things on the way and just let them pass by. Watch the thoughts of your minds in the same way.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

See Thinking Travel Way Yourself
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.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Human People Poverty Starve
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
Thankfulness is a humble, open and prayerful attitude that helps you receive more of God’s grace.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Grace Help Humble Thankful Yourself
Married life, if lived with the proper love and understanding, helps awaken the feminine within a man, and the masculine within a woman.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Feminine Live Man Marriage Understand Woman
People think that God wants our offerings. God does not need anything from us. He is the giver. He is like the sun – the giver of light.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Light Offering People Sun Thinking
You can only feel love by expressing it.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Expression Feeling Love Yourself
Intellectual prowess has its limitations. Thus, do not limit the scope of your learning to the realm of the intellect.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Intellectual Learning Limitation Scope Yourself
Go out and serve the suffering. Learn to place others in front of yourself.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Learning Place Service Suffering
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Exercise Heart Suffering
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Expectation Flower Service Throw
God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

God Heart Himself Stand
Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.
MATA AMRITANANDAMAYI

Body Control Happiness Mental Weakness

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